On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:35:06PM +0000, Alex McLintock wrote: > Just had a friendly argument with a hitchhikers fan as to whether or not an > abacus was > a digital or analogue computer.
Digital, clearly, as it can not represent values over a continuous range, only discrete values across that range. It just doesn't use base two. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david It's my experience that neither users nor customers can articulate what it is they want, nor can they evaluate it when they see it -- Alan Cooper
