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von Neumann machine
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Noun1.von Neumann machine - any digital computer incorporating the ideas of stored programs and serial counters that were proposed in 1946 by von Neumann and his colleagues
digital computer - a computer that represents information by numerical (binary) digits


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Known as von Neumann machines, after the computer pioneer and mathematician John von Neumann, these computers operate principally in serial fashion, step by step.
 
 
 
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