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An abstract mathematical or architectural representation of how computation or a computing system behaves, used to reason about a whole class of systems rather than to describe one built implementation. Belongs here: Client-Server Model, Finite State Machine, Relational Model, Turing Machine and Von Neumann Architecture. Does not belong here: a specific named system that embodies a model, filed as a system entity rather than a concept entity, and a step-by-step procedure, filed under Algorithm.

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1945 CE 1
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1. Wikipedia: Von Neumann architecture
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The von Neumann architecture-also known as the von Neumann model or Princeton architecture-is a computer architecture based on the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, written by John von Neumann in 1945, describing designs by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
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