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To: Vroomfondel

you make a point, but the AK's programmign is in it's very design - like a telephone - you can't program it, it's design is it's program - a single purpose unit.


26 posted on 11/29/2006 11:35:34 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
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To: camle
you make a point, but the AK's programmign is in it's very design - like a telephone - you can't program it, it's design is it's program - a single purpose unit.

Which means it is not a computer in the manner the term is used when speaking of ENIAC and the Babbage Analytic Engine. ENIAC and the Analytic Engine are referred to as the first computers precisely because they are programmable.

55 posted on 11/29/2006 1:54:09 PM PST by Vroomfondel
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