FIT1052 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ticker Tape, Typewriter, John Von Neumann
30 May 2018
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John Von Neumann
Basic components:
•Input!
•Output!
•CPU: read and process all information, to fetch memory!
Von Neumann architecture to solve:
•Time consuming to rebuild to send instructions!
•Had to flick switches to read binary codes!
•To build machines that can do more than one thing at a time!
Von neumann already had prestige
He synthesised all the finding into a report and published, thus he took the
credit
Williams:
•The construction of stored program computers meant that the main
memory became a key factor in determining what could be done
with the rest of the machine’s architecture!
•Could erase content/memory from the machine and replace with
new!
•If do want to keep memory, want to keep it for long time!
•Inexpensive;!
•Retrieve information being stored quickly to keep up to computers
control unit!
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Document Summary
Input: output, cpu: read and process all information, to fetch memory. Time consuming to rebuild to send instructions: had to flick switches to read binary codes. To build machines that can do more than one thing at a time. He synthesised all the finding into a report and published, thus he took the credit. The construction of stored program computers meant that the main memory became a key factor in determining what could be done with the rest of the machine"s architecture: could erase content/memory from the machine and replace with new. If do want to keep memory, want to keep it for long time. Inexpensive: retrieve information being stored quickly to keep up to computers control unit. Purpose ib built machines for in 1950s & 1960s: Punch cards, ticker tape, electric typewriter, switches, dials. Body: explain ensmenger assertion (i. e. what ensmenger"s idea that we"re agreeing or not agreeing) Present example (just one), history/background (more than 1 reference)
