Alan Grimes wrote:
Think of asserting that "All computers will be, at their core, adding machines."
to get what appears to me to be the right feeling tone.
Well, if you take apart a modern CPU, you will find it has 3 or 4 nearly
identical units called "Arethmitic Logic Units" -- which are glorified
adding machines, and these four ALUs process every piece of data in main
memory.
To get a whole computer, you need a memory and a control unit and damn
little else.
Unnh...I said *adding* machine. I wasn't including subtraction, boolean
operations, shifts, jumps, etc. You can't have a computer without
adding, but adding doesn't give you a computer.
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