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core of nearly every computer system in use today (regardless
each successive operation can read or write any memory
location, independent of the location accessed by the previous
operation.
(CPU) with one or more
registers that hold data that are
being operated on. The CPU has a set of built-in operations
branching to another part of a program if the binary integer
The CPU can interpret the contents of memory either as
problems of construction and hence settled for a sequential
system. For this reason, parallel computers are sometimes
referred to as non-von Neumann architectures.
A von Neumann machine can compute the same class of functions
[Reference? Was von Neumann's design, unlike Turing's,
originally intended for physical implementation? How did they
influence each other?]
(2003-05-16)