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To: discostu

Most software types are told that their programs are stored with binary logic on the disk. That is a lie. The data is analog. Does this invalidate the concept of digital information? No. It simplifies it for those that have no need to understand the complexities of data storage. Same with the Bohr model.


304 posted on 01/20/2005 8:33:13 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: WildTurkey

The data is digital, it's 1s and 0s, that's digital. And most software types never worry about data storage, that's under the hood stuff for hardware driver developers. In the world of software if you don't learn anything about under the hood until you take classes that are on under the hood stuff, it's a black box until then, something you don't have to worry about how it works just understand the API calls to put stuff there and get it back. And there's nothing wrong with black boxing stuff too complicated for the level of the student.


345 posted on 01/21/2005 6:55:40 AM PST by discostu (mime is money)
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