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Thanks Gary, that is very very informative and very interesting.
In this case, I think that calling computers "von Neumann machines "is obviously a bad thing to do. I wonder if they still teach this at uni?
Credit is always a complicated thing in science and technology, as we found out when we looked into Hubble's discoveries in an IIS science thread. In Hubble's case, he probably discovered noticeably less than he is usually credited with, but the von Neumann case seems like a straightforward case of attributing credit in a way that is grossly unfair to the people who did the work.
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