The Von Neumann Architecture, a friend and a foe

First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC - Von Neumann

Von Neumann, anoth­er star from Göttingen, gave the next import­ant step in com­pu­ta­tion after Turing (check­out my pre­vi­ous post for Turing’s first step), in a way that, to this day, you can­’t talk about com­puters without talk­ing about Von Neumann. Which came first: the Hardware, or the Software and Languages? In an ana­log­ous way to […]