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To: Nathan Zachary

No. There is no computation. If there is no computation it is not a computer. If it’s not a computer it’s not using a computer language. It also cannot be said to be “processing” in the same way your computer processes. Unless you think your food processor is computing the vegetable dip you put in it.


134 posted on 09/01/2009 8:52:17 AM PDT by TomOnTheRun
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To: TomOnTheRun

A computer is a platform for information processing.
Sorry, you can’t get around that definition.

It doesn’t matter if the information is a series of holes on a card, or modern computer programing language.

A computer is simply a device that processes information


136 posted on 09/01/2009 8:57:24 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: TomOnTheRun

And since what you are insisting can only be called a computer didn’t exist at the time this guy lived, he couldn’t have been the founder of the science that eventually created it, could he.

Not an inventor of resistors, transistors, silicon micro chips, hard drives, or even mechanical memory storage devices, none of it.


140 posted on 09/01/2009 9:00:49 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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