Reconsidering the Stored-Program Concept

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Citation: Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, Crispin Rope (Jan 2014) Reconsidering the Stored-Program Concept. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (RSS)
DOI (original publisher): 10.1109/MAHC.2013.56
Semantic Scholar (metadata): 10.1109/MAHC.2013.56
Sci-Hub (fulltext): 10.1109/MAHC.2013.56
Internet Archive Scholar (search for fulltext): Reconsidering the Stored-Program Concept
Download: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/an/2014/01/man2014010004-abs.html
Tagged: Computer Science (RSS) History (RSS), Programming (RSS), Memory management (RSS), Programming environments (RSS), Software tools (RSS), EDVAC hardware paradigm (RSS), history of computing (RSS), stored program (RSS), stored program concept (RSS), ENIAC (RSS), EDVAC (RSS), John von Neumann (RSS), modern code paradigm (RSS), von Neumann architectural paradigm (RSS)

Summary

The first in a three-part series in IEEE Annals, this article gives a historical explanation of the endemic confusion surrounding the stored-program concept. The authors suggest the adoption of more precisely defined alternatives to capture specific aspects of the new approach to computing associated with the 1945 work of von Neumann and his collaborators. The second article, "Engineering--The Miracle of the ENIAC: Implementing the Modern Code Paradigm,"' examines the conversion of ENIAC to use the modern code paradigm identified in this article. The third, "Los Alamos Bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo Simulations, 1947-1948,"' examines in detail the first program written in the new paradigm to be executed.


For citation: issue 36(1), Jan-Mar 2014, 4-17

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