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From: Nick Maclaren on 25 Aug 2008 08:36

In article <411fa0ee-729c-4c18-81b0-abaebdeef239(a)l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
already5chosen(a)yahoo.com writes:
|> >
|> Conclusion: the people that use the term "Von Neumann architecture" as
|> a common replacement for "architecture based on interpreting of serial
|> or near-serial instruction streams fetched from random-access memory"
|> are true revisionists.

Ah. Well, I side with Backus - who is both massively more eminent
than I am and of a previous generation.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359579

Are you claiming that he was being a revisionist in that?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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