On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:45:55 -0500, Chase, John wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Warner Mach >> >> Anyone who finds it amazing that someone would bring up a >> 1401 simulator under Hercules "just for the heck of it" >> should check out this site where the gentleman built an >> entire computer using relays: >> >> http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/index.html > >Reduced to its essence, a computer is nothing more than a vast array of >switches and a clock. > And Ivan Sutherland maintained in an article published in Scientific American a few years ago that the clock is superfluous and detrimental.
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