My hot take: it’s not really a “computer” unless it’s Turing-complete. The Antikythera mechanism is incredibly cool and all, but it can only perform a finite, fixed set of calculations and thus fails to meet that definition.
does anyone know what finite fixed set of operations it performs? because its doesn’t tale much for turinh complete basically just sum negation, and compare
My hot take: it’s not really a “computer” unless it’s Turing-complete. The Antikythera mechanism is incredibly cool and all, but it can only perform a finite, fixed set of calculations and thus fails to meet that definition.
does anyone know what finite fixed set of operations it performs? because its doesn’t tale much for turinh complete basically just sum negation, and compare
What’s your take on the E6B flight computer?
Technically it’s a computer because it can compute something, it’s just not a universal computer.
Right, so you consider calculators to be computers too? And I don’t mean the beefy scientific calculators, just simple ones with basic operations.
“Computer” is literally anything that performs computations – it even used to be a job title.
“Mechanical Computers” were almost exclusively limited in what they could compute.
Yes.
Porn?
Can it go up to 80085?
unzip
Yes, most computers should also be able to run WinRAR.
Why do people still use WinRAR? 7zip is free, and open source.
It was fucking joke.
I know, but I wanted to know why people use that program.
Yup. I explain old automatic transmissions as Hydraulic Computers.