Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Von Neumann Architecture - Computerphile" video.

  1. 15:44 Arthur C Clarke worked in radar, too, I recall. Did he work with Wilkes?
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  2. 7:00 Church: the lambda-calculus man! Never mind trying to work with functions of numbers, imagine the whole concept of computation reformulated so that numbers themselves are functions! Ever wondered where the term “lambda” came from for a function defined at point of use without a name? It’s all his fault!
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  3. 12:48 Interesting that the issue of “digital” versus “analog” seems to have fallen by the wayside by this point. I wonder how long it will take the “quantum computing” folks to realize that they have reinvented “analog” computers ...
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  4. 2:46 Forgetting to mention its key characteristic: the box marked “STORE” is used for both instructions and data. And how do you tell whether a memory word contains an “instruction” or “data”? Actually, you can’t: it all depends on how it’s used!
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  5. 0.21 You know what irks me? The “=” sign on his T-shirt in what is clearly a numerical approximation.
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