This chapter starts with the analysis of the engineering foundation of computing which, proceeding in parallelwith themathematical foundation, led to the design and creation of physical computingmachines. It illustrates the historical evolution of the first generation of computing and their technical foundation, known as the von Neumann architecture. Fromthe conceptual point of view, the chapter clarifies the relation between the universal model of computation and the construction of an all-purpose machine.
Modeling stream-based applications using the SBF model of computation