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So von neuman came and watched a working computer, wrote a paper, and now we call it von neuman architecture ?? Really ?
by bsaul 11y ago
So von neuman came and watched a working computer, wrote a paper, and now we call it von neuman architecture ?? Really ?
- sulam 11y agoLMGTFY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the_EDVAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the... Short answer: yep!
- eternalban 11y agoJean's [1] got the skinny: "Yeah. He would say well, probably if von Neumann knew it was going to be published, he would have given credit to somebody; he didn’t give credit to anybody. I just read an affidavit that was in one of the technology magazines that von Neumann signed that said that Goldstine asked him to write the report for publications. It was when they got permission from Aberdeen and Penn. He knew from the very beginning it was going to be published, so the fact that he didn’t attribute -- I mean it shows to me that he was planning to steal it to start with, I mean that is piracy. And I don’t know why Goldstine never knew that because back in 1984, he was still arguing in the MIT oral history that it was his responsibility and that von Neumann was so gracious that even if somebody were in the room when he was writing he would give them credit. I mean that’s baloney and.." She has some fine words to say about a few other sacred cows. Straight talk. Per Jean Bartik, the original inventors were effectively blacklisted because of (completely bogus) suspected communist sympathies. ("Nothing to hide" ..) [1]: Oral History of Jean Bartik: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Bartik_Jean/102658322.05.01.acc.pdf http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Histo...