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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 06:10 PM EDT |
>Actually, even the voltages within a computer's memory circuits are still
just a representation of the program.
Now you're just stating the blindingly obvious. Voltages in a computer's memory
don't change it to some other machine, any more than voltages in an armature at
50 degrees cause it to be different than an armature at 20 degrees. In both
cases, the voltage is designedly transient.
Remember, in some early computers, "stored" memory was represented as
sound waves passing through a tube of mercury. Like modern RAM, the memory had
to be "refreshed" (via a microphone at one end of the tube coupled to
a speaker at the other). Again, the sound signals changed the computer into a
different computer, just like playing Gregorian chant through your home-theatre
speakers changes them into completely different machines, to wit, home-church
speakers. (Sarcasm alert)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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