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The 24 pages that link to Stored-program computer, each with the reason it gives.

• John von NeumannRelated: Von Neumann helped articulate this design in the context of the EDVAC project.

• Central processing unitNarrower topic: The stored-program model established the basic organization used by most general-purpose CPUs.

• ENIACCompared with: ENIAC initially required physical rewiring rather than stored instructions.

• Machine codeNarrower topic: Stored programs made machine-code instruction sequences loadable and executable from memory.

• Universal Turing machineRelated: The universal machine’s treatment of descriptions as data anticipates the stored-program principle.

• History of computingRelated: This design made programs easier to change without rewiring the machine.

• Von Neumann architectureNarrower topic: The architecture implements the stored-program idea by keeping instructions and data in shared memory.

• EDVACNarrower topic: EDVAC was designed around this architecture, unlike machines that required rewiring to change programs.

• Manchester BabyNarrower topic: The Baby demonstrated this architecture using electronic memory.

• UNIVAC INarrower topic: UNIVAC I’s instructions were stored electronically rather than set solely by rewiring.

• Harvard architectureNarrower topic: Harvard architecture is one way to organize a stored-program computer.

• John MauchlyRelated: The transition from ENIAC’s plugboard programming toward stored instructions framed Mauchly’s later computer designs.

• PlugboardCompared with: It replaces rewiring as the main way to change a computer’s program.

• Atanasoff–Berry computerCompared with: The machine stored numerical data, but its computational instructions were not held in memory.

• EDSACNarrower topic: EDSAC implemented this architecture as a practical service machine.

• J. Presper EckertNarrower topic: The UNIVAC I embodied the stored-program design that distinguished later general-purpose computers.

• Jean BartikCompared with: ENIAC’s original programming required physical setup, unlike the stored-program approach Bartik encountered later.

• Computer (electronic device)Related: Storing instructions in memory made computers easier to reprogram for different tasks.

• Kathleen AntonelliCompared with: ENIAC initially required physical reconfiguration, unlike later stored-program machines.

• ColossusCompared with: Colossus was not a stored-program machine; its settings were configured through switches and plugboards.

• Maurice WilkesNarrower topic: EDSAC’s defining capability was executing instructions held in electronic memory.

• History of computer scienceBroader topic: Separating programs from fixed wiring made machines broadly reprogrammable.

• History of softwareRelated: Storing programs in memory made software easier to change than hard-wired control.

• Manchester computersNarrower topic: The Manchester machines demonstrated this defining computing architecture in operation.