Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Do you have a Turing-complete Von Neumann Machine?

"4 million Turing-complete Von Neumann machines are manufactured DAILY!"

1.5 billion per year???

Do you have one???

(hint: its called a PC)

The birth of the computer


per wikipedia

"
ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first general-purpose, electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems. ... it was completed in 1946"

ENIAC from Wikipedia

Eniac

"It was first demonstrated as a
stored-program computer on September 16, 1948", i.e., the first Von Neumann machine.

John von Neumann and the Johniac at RAND, JOHNNIAC)

TTFN
(Peace, Skepticism, Bright, Humanism, Green, TED)

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