Charles D Hixson wrote: > Alan Grimes wrote: >>> Think of asserting that "All computers will be, at their core, adding >>> machines." >>> to get what appears to me to be the right feeling tone.
>> Well, if you take apart a modern CPU, you will find it has 3 or 4 nearly >> identical units called "Arethmitic Logic Units" -- which are glorified >> adding machines, and these four ALUs process every piece of data in main >> memory. >> To get a whole computer, you need a memory and a control unit and damn >> little else. > Unnh...I said *adding* machine. I wasn't including subtraction, boolean > operations, shifts, jumps, etc. You can't have a computer without > adding, but adding doesn't give you a computer. Who said computers could subtract? They compute the two's compliment negation of one of the operands and then add. ;) -- Opera: Sing it loud! :o( )>-< ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=27813339-bd43bc
