gomarion 's List: Computers in General

• • I have not read this yet.

• the portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program
• or the processor
• and is the primary element carrying out the computer's functions
• EDVAC.
• EDVAC
• While von Neumann is most often credited with the design of the stored-program computer because of his design of EDVAC, others before him, such as Konrad Zuse, had suggested and implemented similar ideas. The so-called Harvard architecture of the Harvard Mark I, which was completed before EDVAC, also utilized a stored-program design using punched paper tape rather than electronic memory.
• latter separates the storage and treatment of CPU instructions and data, while the former uses the same memory space for both.
• is limited to a set of discrete states

  • Are they referring to the boolean states 0 and 1?

  • What do they mean by this?
• • The last part read.

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