You've just admitted that computers can perform a logical operation other than addition (taking a negation).
- Tom --- Alan Grimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/?&; > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/ ----- 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=27826600-bd7d06
