Richard Gaskin wrote: > ...Since the whole computing thing is just smoke and mirrors anyway (who > bothers to notice that it's just a machine too dumb to count past 1?), > for the end-user it may be very useful to hide complexity whenever > practical. The whole experience is just an illusion, so better to make > it a pleasant one. :) ...
When you think about it, or ever programmed in Assembly, there are only 5-things a computer can do: 1. It can add and subtract (multiplication and division are just rapid looped additions and subtractions). 2. It can compare two bits/bytes and determine equal to, greater than or less than (how you know when to stop subtracting in a "division" and call it a remainder). 3. It can move bits/bytes from one location to another (storage to memory, memory to monitor, to processor, etc.) 4. It can replace instances of one bit/byte in memory with another. 5. It can jump execution to an offset location in memory (actually a variation of 3). Oh yeah, there is a sixth: 6. It can crash. :-) All the illusion is based on combining these simple 5-capabilities and the shattering of illusion is in the 6th. :-) Aloha from Hawaii, Jim Bufalini _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
