CCW
02-04-2004, 09:07 AM
Review Quote:
Over half a century ago, Von Neumann come up with the brilliant idea of using memory for both code and data. While computers today hardly resemble their room-filled ancestors, they still use memory to store both code and data. Even the earliest computer builders strived to make memory larger and faster; a trend which sees no end in sight. Today, memory has a million times the capacity and is thousands of times faster than the earliest memory subsystems.
Read it here (http://www.amdzone.com/articleview.cfm?ArticleID=1383).
Over half a century ago, Von Neumann come up with the brilliant idea of using memory for both code and data. While computers today hardly resemble their room-filled ancestors, they still use memory to store both code and data. Even the earliest computer builders strived to make memory larger and faster; a trend which sees no end in sight. Today, memory has a million times the capacity and is thousands of times faster than the earliest memory subsystems.
Read it here (http://www.amdzone.com/articleview.cfm?ArticleID=1383).