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von Neumann machine

Definitions of von Neumann machine
  1. noun
    any digital computer incorporating the ideas of stored programs and serial counters that were proposed in 1946 by von Neumann and his colleagues
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    digital computer
    a computer that represents information by numerical (binary) digits
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