From: luvisi@gmail.com (Andru Luvisi)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Jon von Neumann!
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 16:05:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAObyg6bQxVD3bXgS0nCb_Nb_qwHh+_MBsbP9vUtSAsd81MU8aA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1512280609550.27165@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On January 29, 1944 J. Presper Eckert wrote a memo explaining how
information could be stored on spinning disks, using one large memory to
hold intermediate results, lookup tables, and program information. This
was several months before von Neumann joined the project. See A History of
Computing in the Twentieth Century (1980).
von Neumann did a good job of writing up the idea, but it would have
happened without him.
Andru
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> Jon von Neumann was born in 1903; without him, we probably wouldn't have
> had computers at all (but we could've had a Wintel version, I suppose,
> wherein everything is controlled by BB).
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 19:23 Dave Horsfall
2015-12-27 20:36 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-12-28 7:48 ` Peter Jeremy
2015-12-29 0:05 ` Andru Luvisi [this message]
2015-12-29 1:07 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-27 20:01 Norman Wilson
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