The report was regarded as being extremely valuable, and over the years the document became a cause of tension between Goldstine and von Neumann against Eckert and Mauchly. Eckert fought for the patent rights concerning EDVAC. He and Mauchly claimed that von Neumann "had merely summarized the group’s discussions and that they, Eckert and Mauchly, deserved the full credit for discovery of the fundamental ideas.” The situation escalated to its climax in the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand when Mauchly addressed von Neumann with the following:
Johnny learned instantly of course, as was his nature. But he chose to refer to the modules we had described as “organs” and to substitute hypothetical “neurons” for hypothetical vacuum tubes or other devices …show more content…
But this time, the purposes were not going to be war-related, but instead for scientific applications, as he explains in this letter to Lewis L. Strauss:
… in other words, I feel sure that an electronic machine of the most advanced conceivable type should be constructed, not for use on specific applied mathematical or physical engineering problems, but with the purpose of experimentation with the machine itself in order to develop new approximation and computing methods, and generally to acquire the mathematical and logical forms of thinking which are necessary for the really efficient operation of such a device, with the methods it will have brought into …show more content…
An in-depth very technical account of fundamentals of computing systems (used by many computer pioneers) can be found in “On the Principles of Large Scale Computing Machines.” Continuing on EDVAC’s model with some minor upgrades, copies were made and expanded to different locations in order to understand its architecture. Later AVIDAC was recreated at Argonne National Laboratory, JOHNNIAC at the RAND Corporation, ILLIAC at the University of Illinois, MANIAC at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Von Neumann’s legacy was represented by the IAS-class computers built around the world during the 1950s for commercial and government use. Today, we have modern computers even ten thousand times faster than ENIAC’s times, but deep in their system the fundamental von Neumann architecture still remains to this
Johnny learned instantly of course, as was his nature. But he chose to refer to the modules we had described as “organs” and to substitute hypothetical “neurons” for hypothetical vacuum tubes or other devices …show more content…
But this time, the purposes were not going to be war-related, but instead for scientific applications, as he explains in this letter to Lewis L. Strauss:
… in other words, I feel sure that an electronic machine of the most advanced conceivable type should be constructed, not for use on specific applied mathematical or physical engineering problems, but with the purpose of experimentation with the machine itself in order to develop new approximation and computing methods, and generally to acquire the mathematical and logical forms of thinking which are necessary for the really efficient operation of such a device, with the methods it will have brought into …show more content…
An in-depth very technical account of fundamentals of computing systems (used by many computer pioneers) can be found in “On the Principles of Large Scale Computing Machines.” Continuing on EDVAC’s model with some minor upgrades, copies were made and expanded to different locations in order to understand its architecture. Later AVIDAC was recreated at Argonne National Laboratory, JOHNNIAC at the RAND Corporation, ILLIAC at the University of Illinois, MANIAC at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Von Neumann’s legacy was represented by the IAS-class computers built around the world during the 1950s for commercial and government use. Today, we have modern computers even ten thousand times faster than ENIAC’s times, but deep in their system the fundamental von Neumann architecture still remains to this