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early pioneer of ComputerScience, who developed the concept of an abstract machine, with a [RAM] seperated
from the [CPU] by a bus
, and much work on automata (see FiniteStateMachine).
+A mathematician who was an
early pioneer of ComputerScience, who developed the concept of an abstract machine, with a [RAM] separated
from the [CPU] by a [Bus]
, and much work on automata (see FiniteStateMachine).
-See: http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/History/Pioneers/
Neumann,_John_
von/
+Modern computer designs are sometimes known as the "von
Neumann architecture"
, or perhaps "the
von Neumann bottleneck" when talking about all data travelling back and forth along the [Bus] between the [CPU] and the [RAM] and [HardDisk](s).
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+He was a Hungarian who left Europe for the United States as he saw World War 2 become inevitable. During the war he did calculations to determine the optimal altitude to denotate an atomic bomb to cause the most damage.
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+See: http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/History/Pioneers/Neumann,_John_von/
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