How an internal 1945 EDVAC draft made von Neumann architecture famous
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-01
The 1945 First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC first widely described a computer with a single memory holding both data and instructions — the design nearly every modern computer still uses.
John von Neumann wrote the draft, but it was never a formal journal publication: project security officer Herman Goldstine had it typed and circulated starting June 25, 1945 (typescript dated June 30). That distribution made the design public, which is why the architecture bears von Neumann's name.
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