stored-program

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stored-program - of or concerning programs stored in the computer's own memory

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Dr James Sumner, a lecturer at the university in the history of technology, said: "The Baby was very limited in what it could do, but it was the first ever real-life demonstration of electronic stored-program computing, the fast and flexible approach used in nearly all computers today."

Big baby started the boom in computers; 70th anniversary of pioneering machine running first program electronically

You see, programming was around long before the stored-program computer was invented by John van Neumann in 1945.

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The oven functions as a stored-program control system in which every post-curing process runs automatically, controlled by a program that has been free-tuned for the composition of the material to be treated.