[SIGCIS-Members] "Stored program" -- anyone know origins of the PHRASE
Evan Koblentz
evan at snarc.net
Mon Apr 2 22:08:18 PDT 2012
>From Pres Eckert's Tokyo speech (thanks to Thomas Miller for observing this):
"My big idea was the idea of the stored instruction sequence or program, using a single fast memory for both data and instruction, with no distinction between registers used for many purposes. At the time I first though of this idea, (in January 1944)..."
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