• A stored-program computer is a computer that stores program instructions in electronically or optically accessible memory. This contrasts with systems...
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    to set up and debug a program on ENIAC. With the proposal of the stored-program computer, this changed. A stored-program computer includes, by design,...
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    A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. It is one component of software, which also...
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    this changed. A stored-program computer includes by design an instruction set and can store in memory a set of instructions (a program) that details the...
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    stored program concept, a breakthrough which today is a hallmark of digital computers. Other innovations included the use of magnetic tape to store large...
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    the first stored-program computer; the Manchester Baby, which was a small-scale experimental stored-program computer, ran its first program on 21 June...
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    machines. Stored-program computers, by contrast, were designed to store a set of instructions (a program), in memory – typically the same memory as stored data...
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  • were programmed by control panels in a similar way, as were the first electronic computers. However, with the concept of the stored-program computer introduced...
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  • computer to run a stored program. It ran a factoring program for 52 minutes on June 21, 1948, after running a simple division program and a program to...
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  • characteristic is that the switching system is controlled by a computer program stored in a memory in the switching system. SPC was the enabling technology...
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