The von Ncumann-type computer

Most active computers today are of this von Neumann-type. The type became publicly known as the von Neumann-type when mathematician John von Neumann published on his own authority in 1946 an article logically summarizing a computer called EDVAC that was being developed under military secrecy at the time. This type is called the "stored program method" or "program accumulation method&sbquo" and became a generel term for computers that store programs in memory devices as data&sbquo read them sequentially&sbquo and execute tasks. Every computer today employs this method. That is&sbquo a new computing technology is unlikely unless we free ourselves from this method. The relation between the CPU and OS has relied solely on this von Neulmann-type&sbquo but a new method that doesn't rely on the hardware&sbquo or CPU&sbquo but more on the software itself&sbquo is being proposed. The possibility for the application itself to become more user-oriented has just emerged thanks to this independence from the CPU and especially its effect that allows the kernel structure to be altered. Still&sbquo this method is just an extension of the von Neumann-type. It is&sbquo however&sbquo predicted that a computing system with a new data processing method will appear due to this liberation of OS from the hardware&sbquo along with such new devices that use fluidic&sbquo genetic&sbquo and neural elements. More specifically&sbquo such methods as free modification of the node itself in the network are being studied today through development of various data processing elements such as task sharing by the grid method. We must take note of the fact that an approach for the next generation computer transcending the limits of the von Neumann-type is coming into sight.

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