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Re:The Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer by blattimwind on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:30AM (#17373417)
> it stored the program in the same memory as the data

Doesn't make sense as a distinction for "stored-program computer", since that's just called a Von Neumann architecture.

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Re:The Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer by rootbear on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:41AM (#17373484)
Using a unified memory allowed for self modifying code. That's not something we do now, but those early machines had extremely limited memory and every trick was needed just to get anything done.
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Re:The Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer by Squonk42 on Friday June 22, 2018 @09:00AM (#17373605)
It is not a "trick", it is one of the only possible ways to achieve Turing-completeness: code self-modification, conditional branches or extensive (exponential) computation (Zuse Z3).
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