internally stored program
1computer program — detailed plan or procedure for solving a problem with a computer; more specifically, an unambiguous, ordered sequence of computational instructions necessary to achieve such a solution. The distinction between computer programs and… …
2Motor program — A motor program is an abstract representation of movement that centrally organizes and controls the many degrees of freedom involved in performing an action (Schmidt and Lee, 2005 p. 182). Signals transmitted through efferent and afferent… …
3Z3 (computer) — Konrad Zuse s Z3 was the world s first working programmable, fully automatic computing machine; whose attributes, with the addition of conditional branching, have often been the ones used as criteria in defining a computer. The Z3 was built with… …
4Maurice Wilkes — Not to be confused with Maurice Wilkins, Maurice Wilks, or Maurice Canning Wilks. Maurice Wilkes Born 26 June 1913(1913 0 …
5IBM 704 — right|thumb|280px|An IBM 704 mainframe (image courtesy of LLNL)The IBM 704, [http://www 03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe 2423PH704.html 704 photos from IBM] ] the first mass produced computer with floating point arithmetic… …
6D37D — Minuteman III guidance ring containing the D37D computer. The D37D Minuteman III flight computer was initially supplied with the LGM 30G missile, as part of the NS 20 navigation system. The NS 20 D37D flight computer is a miniaturized general… …
7processor — A device capable of receiving and manipulating data and supplying results usually of an internally stored program …
8Colossus computer — Colossus MkI/MkII A Colossus Mark 2 computer. The operator on the left is Dorothy Duboisson. The slanted control panel on the left was used to set the pin patterns on the Lorenz. The bedstead paper tape transport is on the right. Developer Tommy… …
9Von Neumann architecture — The term Von Neumann architecture, aka the Von Neumann model, derives from a computer architecture proposal by the mathematician and early computer scientist John von Neumann and others, dated June 30, 1945, entitled First Draft of a Report on… …
10Central processing unit — CPU redirects here. For other uses, see CPU (disambiguation). An Intel 80486DX2 CPU from above An Intel 80486DX2 from below …
