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First Draft of a Report
on the EDVAC by John von Neumann
1.2 An automatic computing system is a (usually highly composite) device, which can carry out
instructions to perform calculations of a considerable order of complexity—e.g. to solve a non-linear
partial differential equation in 2 or 3 independent variables numerically.
This report has been published in: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 15, No. 4,
pp.27-75, 1993.