First draft of a report on the EDVAC
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- Vol. 15 (4) , 27-75
- https://doi.org/10.1109/85.238389
Abstract
The first draft of a report on the EDVAC written by John von Neumann is presented. This first draft contains a wealth of information, and it had a pervasive influence when it was first written. Most prominently, Alan Turing cites it in his proposal for the Pilot automatic computing engine (ACE) as the definitive source for understanding the nature and design of a general-purpose digital computer.Keywords
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- The computer as von Neumann planned itIEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 1993