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2 unusual facts about Von Neumann architecture


Code as data

Von Neumann architecture, a computer architecture that stores program code and data in the same memory device.

Von Neumann architecture

Hence, Von Neumann was not alone in developing the idea of the stored-program architecture, and Jack Copeland considers that it is "historically inappropriate, to refer to electronic stored-program digital computers as 'von Neumann machines'".


Freescale 68HC08

Like all Motorola processors that share lineage from the 6800, they use the von Neumann architecture as well as memory-mapped I/O.

Universal Turing machine

This model is considered by some (for example, Martin Davis (2000)) to be the origin of the stored program computer—used by John von Neumann (1946) for the "Electronic Computing Instrument" that now bears von Neumann's name: the von Neumann architecture.


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