27 Feb
2015
27 Feb
'15
9:15 p.m.
> The authors of the articles carefully avoid
declarations of ENIAC as
a stored-program machine.
I interpret is differently. What they're doing is observing that "stored
program" then vs. now could mean different things.
>>> 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".
> Von Neumann was around the project years before
the 46-48
modifications. He produced the Draft Report on the EDVAC - from which
those modifications were conceptually derived - in 1945.
What I meant is he got there after Mauchly & Eckert were already
thinking about such things.