[HN Gopher] The birth of random-access memory
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The birth of random-access memory
Author : 2517AD
Score : 35 points
Date : 2022-07-21 18:06 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| dboreham wrote:
| Curious how readout worked and whether readout was destructive.
| kps wrote:
| Yes. Wikipedia actually has more information than the IEEE
| article.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube#Working_principl...
| ngmc wrote:
| Some robots made a cool musical about this:
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| https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nZZjkBu_E4olFSb5Ey...
| ncmncm wrote:
| John von Neumann usually gets credit for this and numerous other
| details still faithfully reproduced in our pocket supercomputers,
| but he was summarizing the work of many others mostly gagged by
| Brits' Official Secrets Act.
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| Von Neumann doesn't need that recognition, having created several
| other still-lively fields single-handed. But the clarity of his
| presentation did make readers smarter, by making the profound
| innovations seem obvious. They were not.
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| krallja wrote:
| Pres Eckert independently discovered the stored program
| concept, which von Neumann included in his EDVAC report. Now we
| call it a "von Neumann architecture" when it really should be
| "Eckert architecture," or one of the British independent
| discoverers. As you said -- von Neumann doesn't need that
| recognition -- and he likely used his position as a revered
| wartime physicist to grab it for himself anyway.
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