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Re: [OM] What is a computer?

Subject: Re: [OM] What is a computer?
From: w shumaker <rlist@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:08:16 -0400
OK, I meant digitally controlled by the microprocessor. I design analog
integrated circuits at Linear Technology where we prefer to distinguish
ourselves from  mere 1's and 0's, but then again, I gave up my triple log
scale slide rule years ago for an HP-35, and I have not yet determined
whether my noggin is stepless, discrete, quantized, linear, continuous, 
deterministic, or chaotic... certainly not intelligent, but possibly conscious
at times...

At 05:33 AM 6/13/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>"The shutter speed in auto mode is analog (stepless) and not determined by a
>computer."
>
>The circuitry that determines when to release the second shutter curtain is,
>by any reasonable definition of the term, a computer. Specifically, it's an
>analog computer performing integration.


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