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| Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 08:03 AM EDT |
PolR is referring to an amicus brief (it might even be from Microsoft) that
referred to a computer 'science' book that declared that installing software on
a computer set the computer switches to a unique configuration that constitutes
a specific new machine architecture.
PolR has been trying to explain ever since that computers don't have their
architecture changed by altering the settings of switches.
I have created new computers by throwing switches. What I was actually doing was
entering the string of algorithmic instructions for the fixed processor
architecture to execute. We were strangers to floppy disks in those days.
I think the author of that book failed to understand what the 'computer
switches' were doing all those years ago.
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Regards
Ian Al
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| Authored by: PolR on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 09:03 AM EDT |
This is not a metaphorical argument. This is found in precedential court rulings
and the courts have explained they meant it literally.
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