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From: mshute@cs.man.ac.uk (Malcolm Shute)
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Subject: Re: harvard architectures
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Date: 18 Oct 90 15:54:44 GMT
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>In article <3468@bnr-rsc.UUCP> bcarh185!schow@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes:
>>Incidentally, I have always wondered why this busing arrangement is
>>known as "Harvard". Anyone know?

In article <7883@darkstar.ucsc.edu> haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU.UUCP (Jim Haynes) writes:
>Yeah.  The "von Neumann" architecture is that in which programs and data
>are stored in the same memory [...]
>The computer group at Harvard, under Aiken, [...] followed the philosophy
>of keeping instructions and data in separate memories.

Why, then, was this not called a "Babbage Architecture"???

Just wondering.
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