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Came here to say the same thing. Although the analogy kind of works (Von Neumann : open :: Harvard : closed), it seems really stretched. Let's not muddle CS ter
by dvt 11y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Although the analogy kind of works (Von Neumann : open :: Harvard : closed), it seems really stretched. Let's not muddle CS terms with politics.
You don't like closed systems? Fine, but calling those systems "Harvard" architecture(s) is kind of misleading.
- ansible 11y agoThere is nothing stopping someone from implementing a Harvard architecture CPU which has the ability to move data to/from program memory. I've never heard of something like that though. So that would be "open". In Microchip PIC land, that would be especially inconvenient, because of the different data vs. instruction size.