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ENIAC stored program(ID:1/eni001)

Von Neumann 

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Country: United States
Designed 1943
Published: 1943
Genus: Other US historic
Sammet category: Excluded from Sammet

Initial Von Neumann computer language, and the initial mechanism for storing programs in memory, established by Von Neumann, Mauchly and Eckhart

Computer designed by J. Prosper Eckert and John Mauchly at Moore School PA between 1943-45. Had conditional branching ("magnitude discrimination") and nested loops (via the Master Programmer). It could operate parallel caclulations in different arithmetic units.

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References:
  • Goldstine, H. H., and Goldstine, A. (1946) Goldstine, H. H., and Goldstine, A. "The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)" pp97-110
          in (1946) Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation 2
  • Brainerd, J. G., and Sharpless, T. K. (1948) Brainerd, J. G., and Sharpless, T. K. "The ENIAC" Elec. Eng. 67 (Feb. 1948), 163-172
          in (1946) Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation 2
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