From Pres Eckert's Tokyo speech (thanks to Thomas Miller for observing
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 -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Evan Koblentz Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:08 AM To: members@sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] "Stored program" -- anyone know origins of the PHRASE 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)..." _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members