FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first computer to use stored programs. Invented by John von Neumann.
A
EDVAC
B
ENIAC
C
UNIVAC
D
COBOL
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Nevertheless, engineers in England built the first stored-program computer, the Manchester Mark I, shortly before the Americans built EDVAC, both operational in 1949.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sixty-five years ago today, the Manchester Small Scale Experimental Machine-nicknamed “Baby”-became the earliest computer in the world to run a program electronically stored in its memory. This was a flagship moment: the first implementation of the stored program concept that underpins modern computing.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first machine to successfully implement the von Neumann Architecture was, Baby, The Small Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), also known as the Manchester Mk I Prototype. This machine ran the first stored program in the morning of the 21st June 1948.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.

Detailed explanation-5: -Presper Eckert proposed EDVAC’s construction in August 1944, and design work for EDVAC commenced before ENIAC was fully operational.

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