[SIGCIS-Members] "Stored program" -- anyone know origins of the PHRASE

[Thomas Haigh]

Hmm. Google suggests that this speech was given in 1991, by which point
there is no shortage of sources saying that the "stored program concept" was
created in the 1940s. What I'm looking for is evidence that someone actually
called it that prior to 1953, which is the usage found by David Alan Grier
yesterday and the current record holder.

Tom 

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>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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