26 Feb
2015
26 Feb
'15
3:51 p.m.
Fuel for the eternal fire: Goldstine seems to be
pretty definite in attributing the stored-program concept to Johnny.
Prominent science historian Tom Haigh recently led a team of researchers
to get to the bottom of this.
Their work resulted in three recent academic papers and a new book
coming soon, in which they clearly found that ENIAC was up-and-running
in stored-program configuration a short time before the Manchester and
any other computers: www.eniacinaction.com.
John v.N. showed up after this, wrote down what he learned there, and
sat back while everyone started calling it the "von Neumann architecture".