Re:The Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer
by anananao on Friday June 22, 2018 @07:34AM
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The distinction is vanishingly small. Every new memory technology (paper tape, punch card, drum, core, rom, prom, eeprom, magnetic disk, NFS, NOR flash, NAND flash, stone tablets, etc, etc) would then generate a "first computer to store on X". X is just a storage technology. Heck - computers from the 70 still stored programs on paper punch card and only loaded a few opcodes into RAM. If you are aware of what cache hiearchy is, then this distinction becomes even fainter - the Z3 might have some instructions cached as relay state - electrical storage.
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Re:The Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer
by walshemj on Friday June 22, 2018 @09:10AM
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No I worked with computers from the 70's (PDP's) and you did load the program into memory.
You might on rare occasions load a bootstrap program into memory from paper tape or even by hand from the console tho.