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<p>as a device for <a href="page.php?w=software">software</a> (computer program) execution, the earliest devices that could rightly be called CPUs came with the advent of the <a href="page.php?w=stored-program_computer">stored-program computer</a>.</p>

<p>The idea of a stored-program computer had already been present in the design of <a href="page.php?w=J._Presper_Eckert">John Presper Eckert</a> and <a href="page.php?w=John_William_Mauchly">John William Mauchly</a>'s <a href="page.php?w=ENIAC">ENIAC</a>, but was initially omitted so that it could</p><p>
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