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From: martin@ollie.Solbourne.COM (Mark Martin)
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Subject: Re: von Neumann reference wanted
Keywords: von Neumann model
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In article <8059@hubcap.clemson.edu> gvw@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk (Greg Wilson) writes:
>Hello.  I'm trying to locate any reference in which John von Neumann
>explicitly stated the basis of the von Neumann model of computation
>(i.e. one processor, one memory, serial execution).

When I took my Computer Architectures course at UNM, the concept of the
von Neumann machine was covered in the beginning, and we were forced to
memorize the three elements which comprise a von Neumann machine.  The
textbook was "Introduction to Computer Architecture" by Stone, Chen, Flynn,
Fuller, Lane, Loomis, Mckeeman, Magleby, Matick, Sites, & Whitney,
published by Science Research Associates Inc. (c) 1975, 1980.  Reference
is made to the original article in which the von Neumann machine is proposed:

   Burkes, A. G.; Goldstine, H. H.; and von Neumann, J. 1946.  Preliminary
   discussion of the logical design of an electronic computing instrument.
   U.S. Army Ordnance Department Report, 1946.  Reprinted in Bell and
   Newell (1971), pp. 92-119.

The machine was not actually built until a later date, and was not the
first computer to follow the precepts of the von Neumann model.

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