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of an accumulator to be attached to the input of a control line of another accumulator.
This could allow data-sensitive operations or operations based on data content. It also
had a unit called the “Master Programmer”, which performed nested loops or iterations.
ENIAC’s units could operate simultaneously, performing parallel calculations.
Eventually this machine could perform IF-THEN conditional branches. It is likely that
this was the first machine with this operation. xxi
In 1944, because of suggested improvements from people involved with the project, the
U.S. Army extended the ENIAC project to include research on Electronic Discrete
Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC), a stored program computer. At about this
time, John von Neumann (1903 - 1957) visited the Moore School to take part in
discussions regarding EDVAC’s design. He is best known for producing the bestrecognized
formal description of a modern computer, based on a stored program
computer, known as the von Neumann architecture, in his 1946 paper "First Draft of a
report to the EDVAC". The basic elements of this architecture are:
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