Which British engineer designed the Manchester Atlas computer's pioneering virtual memory system in the early 1960s?
The Atlas, switched on at the University of Manchester in 1962, introduced concepts still used in every modern operating system. One of its most influential innovations was demand paging, which allowed programs to use more memory than was physically installed.
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