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==Wrong reference==
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.
== stored-program computer vs. von Neumann machine ==
Apparently some people say it is
"historically inappropriate, to refer to electronic stored-program digital computers as 'von Neumann machines'".
So what do those people say is the historically appropriate use of those two terms?
Are these people saying there is some subtle distinction (or perhaps one is a subset category of the other) between stored-program computers and von Neumann mmachines?
If so, what is that distinction?
Or are those people saying that the machines that people call "von Neumann machines" are identically the same as (synonymous with) "stored program computers",
but it is anachronistic to apply von Neumann's name to machines that were developed before von Neumann ever thought of such machines?
If so, please merge the appropriate parts of the [[von Neumann architecture]] article into this [[stored-program computer]] article.
--[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] ([[User talk:DavidCary|talk]]) 18:46, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
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