(from the article `von Neumann, John`) ...led to the independent construction of similar machines around the world. This established the merit of a single-processor, stored-program ...
• A model for a computing machine that uses a single storage structure to hold both the set of instructions on how to perform the computation and the data required or generated by the computation. John von Neumann helped to create the model as an example of a general-purpose computing machine. ...
[n] - any digital computer incorporating the ideas of stored programs and serial counters that were proposed in 1946 by von Neumann and his colleagues
noun any digital computer incorporating the ideas of stored programs and serial counters that were proposed in 1946 by von Neumann and his colleagues