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Computers are not machines?
Authored by: PJ on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 12:35 AM EDT
Hahahahahaha

I love this cray cray thread. It reminds me of
when I wrote that there's no Santa Claus, the
pinnacle of folks finding fault over nits.

Guys, software is contrasted with hardware, just
as you say, BECAUSE SOFTWARE IS NOT HARDWARE.

A computer is hardware.

Was that hard?

I think not.

: D

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Computers are not machines?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 12:39 AM EDT
I think then by your thinking your software engineering book had no software
written in it did it. It just had a whole lot of funny example text in it that
you never quite worked out what it was trying to say. Lucky for you it came
with a CD in the back and you put that in your computer and then you just threw
the book in a pile.

Michael

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Computers are not machines?
Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 10:13 AM EDT
"Software by definition require a computer to run."

I was writing and running BASIC programs long before I owned a computer.

---
Beware of him who would deny you access to information for in his heart he
considers himself your master.

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Computers are not machines?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 04:22 PM EDT
"associated with a system and especially a
computer system" does neither mean that software is an integral and
essential part of a computer system (early analogue computers had no software to
speak of), or that it should exclusively be associated with a computer system.
As a matter of fact you can have software elaborated by any machine capable of
executing a sequence of steps. Like the holes in a punch card for a programmable
weaving machine. Or the words in a book for a human reader.

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If by computer
Authored by: Wol on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 07:05 PM EDT
You mean the ORIGINAL meaning of the word, I'd agree with you. Some-ONE or
-thing that computes.

In other words, a computer needn't be a machine. One only needs to read the
description by Feynman of the computer that calculated a lot of the stuff for
the Manhattan Project. It's a good read, especially how it implemented error
correction :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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