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-An 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).
+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).
+
+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
).
See: http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/History/Pioneers/Neumann,_John_von/
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