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The hardware is more fundamental. (Unless you want to invoke mathematics e.g. term rewriting) The compiler/seq of bytes example requires von neumann, because i
by platz 9y ago
The hardware is more fundamental. (Unless you want to invoke mathematics e.g. term rewriting)
The compiler/seq of bytes example requires von neumann, because in that case it is the behavior of the whole system that is self-modifying.
You could not have the beautiful executable and interchangable files of bytes without von neumann.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoI don't think that's right. There have been systems that were Harvard architecture (Motorola 88000, I think, and definitely others). But the code to run on them still started out as a sequence of bytes in a text file, that is, as data, and a compiler still took that data file and wrote another data file that was the executable image.
- platz 9y agoSure, I guess