Why is the abacus frequently cited as the earliest computer? It
doesn't satisfy a single definition of a computer. It doesn't
automate anything. It's not a general purpose computer in that
it cannot be programmed. Its output is always the same as
its input. It has a finite memory but no control. IT'S JUST
BEADS AND STICKS! Essentially, an abacus was just a way of
keeping records without paper or a useful number system, but
a computer, I think not.
So it was the earliest rewritable memory system. Who cares if it's not a witch?
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Anonymous2008-05-25 21:29
>>1
People were the earliest computers. The abacus was our math co-processor.
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Anonymous2008-05-25 21:39
Fuck bits, I'm measuring memory in beads.
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Anonymous2008-05-25 22:01
An abacus is no less a computer than our electric powered programmable computational devices that are based model after the von Neumann machine. Together with your brain and the abacus, you too can process computer programs just like these electronic von Neumann machines.
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Anonymous2008-05-25 23:16
>>5
So you mean it's completely not a computer because it can't be programmed?
>>6
I mean an abacus is a computer because we use an abacus to compute mathematical equations.
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Anonymous2008-05-26 4:30
In the same sense that a pencil is a computer.
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Anonymous2009-03-06 8:19
The code generated in relation to time and distance x and y axis The thousands of lines of code is a good programmer is stupid flood script yeah huge success The.
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