{"id":234,"date":"2009-06-11T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/?p=234"},"modified":"2009-06-11T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T02:01:23","slug":"computer-memory-architecture-foretold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Computer memory architecture foretold"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ideally one would desire an infinitely large memory capacity such that any particular &#8230; word would be immediately available. &#8230; We are &#8230; forced to recognize the possibility of constructing a hierarchy of memories, each of which has greater capacity that the preceding but which is less quickly accessible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A. W. Burks, H. H. Goldstine and J. von Neumann<br \/>\n<em>Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument<\/em> (1946)<\/p>\n<p>(Quote found in <em>Computer Architecture : A Quantitative Approach 4th Ed.<\/em> by Hennessy &amp; Patterson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideally one would desire an infinitely large memory capacity such that any particular &#8230; word would be immediately available. &#8230; We are &#8230; forced to recognize the possibility of constructing a hierarchy of memories, each of which has greater capacity that the preceding but which is less quickly accessible. A. W. Burks, H. H. Goldstine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/?p=234\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Computer memory architecture foretold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}