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   Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn to All   
   Re: parallel random-access machine (para   
   06 Dec 25 05:30:19   
   
   XPost: comp.lang.misc, sci.physics.relativity   
   From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   Thomas Heger amok-crossposted over 3 newsgroups without Followup-To (!):   
      
   > Am Mittwoch000003, 03.12.2025 um 08:02 schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:   
   >> Thomas Heger wrote:   
   >>> Am Montag000001, 01.12.2025 um 13:23 schrieb Maciej Woźniak:   
   >>>> We can use von Neumann architecture   
   >>>> to emulate other architectures, but as long as it   
   >>>> is performed by our computers it is technically   
   >>>> von Neumann's.   
   >>>>   
   >>> Did you know, that 'von [Neumann] architecture'   
   >>   
   >> [correction]   
   >>   
   >>> was actually invented and patented by Konrad Zuse in Germany in the early   
   >>> 1930th?   
   >>   
   >> NOT true.  Von Neumann's architecture "was based on the work of J. Presper   
   >> Eckert and John Mauchly, inventors of ENIAC and its successor, EDVAC."   
   >   
   > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse_Z3   
   >   
   > Didn't you know, that 1937 was much earlier than the Eniac in 1945?   
      
   If you had cared to read more carefully, you would have noticed that the Z3   
   was a digital computer, but still *electromechanical* (it had *moving   
   parts*), while the ENIAC was an *electronic* digital computer (*no moving   
   parts*):   
      
      
      
   > [conspiracy theory]   
      
   Get well soon.   
      
   F'up2 comp.lang.misc again   
      
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