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The circulated EDVAC draft described a computer organized around memory, arithmetic, control and input/output, with instructions represented in memory. It provided an influential account of the stored-program approach.
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The named author of this draft is not the sole inventor of stored-program computing. The report arose within a wider engineering effort; hardware construction, precursor work and priority disputes are outside this scoped record. The DOI dates a 1993 reprint, not the original 1945 contribution.
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- First draft of a report on the EDVAC
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J. von Neumann
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The EDVAC report: describing a stored-program computer
The circulated EDVAC draft described a computer organized around memory, arithmetic, control and input/output, with instructions represented in memory. It provided an influential account of the stored-program approach.
Scientific scope
The named author of this draft is not the sole inventor of stored-program computing. The report arose within a wider engineering effort; hardware construction, precursor work and priority disputes are outside this scoped record. The DOI dates a 1993 reprint, not the original 1945 contribution.
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People and systems
J. von Neumann
Source-paper byline retained. This is not a complete roster of a lifetime project or verified unique person identities.