Talk:Stored-program computer: Difference between revisions

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::*Turing's 1945/6 paper describing the Automatic Computing Engine design was also a virtual machine, as the Pilot ACE to which the above quotation refers was a substantially cut-down version of what he had proposed. It did indeed come after the SSEM and Manchester Mark 1 and the EDSAC.

::This article ought to be well informed about early developments if it is to achieve credibility and if the redirect from 'Stored program' to 'Von Neuman machine' is to be abolished. --[[User:TedColes|TedColes]] ([[User talk:TedColes|talk]]) 17:21, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

This text's reference 13 (to the claim about Zuse's two patents) isn't correct. It points to Nature's text where Williams & Kilburn describe Manchester "baby". That text certainly doesn't talk about Zuse's patents.