26 Sep
2004
26 Sep
'04
2:10 a.m.
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 23:37, ben franchuk wrote:
Tom Jennings wrote:
Eh, that's not a good enough excuse :-)
Are Zuse's machines stored-program? I think
he had some odd ideas about
stored-program machines and self-modification, like von Neumann did
early on.
All machines of that era had too *small* a memory for internal storage
of programs, so external ( read manual ) input was needed like paper
tape or punched cards or punched film (Zuse).