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Any physical system with a component that you can throw away to make the system a more reliable computer is not a feasible implementation of an abstract computa
by red75prime 4y ago
Any physical system with a component that you can throw away to make the system a more reliable computer is not a feasible implementation of an abstract computation. If you replace the iron bar with a quartz generator, reliability will increase by ten to the power of, say, quadrillion.
- walleeee 4y agowe threw away vacuum tubes and replaced them with semiconductors this made computers more reliable were the vacuum tube monstrosities not computers?
- red75prime 4y agoThey were somewhat useful implementations of abstract computations, unlike "error in the first femtosecond" iron bar computer. And vacuum tubes also played a crucial role in the process of computation, besides introduction of noise.