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To: TomOnTheRun
"Charming. None of the computers you mentioned used stored programming."

Of course they did. whether a punch card or a drum, that is STORED programing. Just what device did Turing actually INVENT? Oh that's right NOTHING. Just a piece of paper with some questions on it...

62 posted on 09/01/2009 7:43:04 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary
Just what device did Turing actually INVENT? Oh that's right NOTHING. Just a piece of paper with some questions on it...

It also contained some bogus predictions, such as Turing's claim that computers would be generally accepted as thinking by around the year 2000.

68 posted on 09/01/2009 7:48:36 AM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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