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In Reply to: End of discussion posted by E-Stat on August 22, 2016 at 19:03:16:
I posted the dictionary definition above. Here it is again.
noun
"a programmable electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations. Mainframes, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones are some of the different types of computers. ""You agreed to this, (the above isn't my definition) and you said "supported I/O Devices" are necessary to make the ARM Processor & RAM board be a computer.
When one buys the board, they buy it without any I/O devices.I am happy to answer your question, - but I don't see why the history of tech, or computing has to do with meeting the criteria of how the dictionary defines the device. The ARM processor board comes with no I/O devices.
The ELIAC was a computer that calculated Artillery firing tables. I honestly don't know how the results were displayed, I always assumed that the computer used some sort of electromechanical solenoid that tapped out numbers that a person actually wrote down, or was set to "print" via some sort of teletype. The input would be the person throwing the switches/or numbers.
Calculators...
In any case, no history matters one fig on the basis of whether or not a device is, or is not a computer. A definition is a description of what a thing is to the exclusion of all other things.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
Edits: 08/22/16
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Follow Ups
- I truly don't understand your angry after we agreed - Sordidman 20:27:22 08/22/16 (3)
- Don't confuse frustration with anger - E-Stat 05:55:23 08/23/16 (2)
- RE: Don't confuse frustration with anger - Sordidman 07:06:22 08/23/16 (1)
- RE: Don't confuse frustration with anger - E-Stat 07:31:04 08/23/16 (0)
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