World's first programmable digital computer brought back to life.

[JosephKK]

Nobody [email protected] posted to sci.electronics.design:

But the article doesn't state *why* they don't consider it to be
Turing-complete. In practice, this could either mean that it cannot
implement an unbounded loop, or that it doesn't have access to
unlimited external storage. If it's the latter, that's probably an
inappropriate distinction; a standalone PC isn't Turing-complete in
that sense, either.

Being programmable only through re-wiring isn't qualitatively
different from being programmable only through punched tape, unless
the system can re-write its own punched tape.

The first stored-program computers didn't appear until the early
1950s (Manchester Mk1 and EDSAC).

The answer is right there in wikipedia. All you need to do is ask it.

 

[JosephKK]

Nobody [email protected] posted to sci.electronics.design:

No, it was the difference engine which was built recently. But that
isn't Turing-complete.

Babbage finished his difference engine and it did useful work revising
many sets of mathematical tables. A new instance may have been
built recently though. I am pretty sure it does not qualify.

 

[Nobody]

The answer is right there in wikipedia. All you need to do is ask it.

Could you say exactly where?

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

Careful with that "World's first" schtuff - it's too easy to look up:
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/jva-archive.shtml

He didn't claim that it was the world's first computer, you retarded
****. He SAID "first programmable computer", which was also incorrect,
but YOU most certainly didn't get it right because YOU can't even fucking
read.

 

[ChairmanOfTheBored]

I believe some folk took to calling the * symbol a "nathan" after
that, because he only had "one asterisk".

Clifford Heath.

Haven't seen many Siamese asses.

I think we all have only one ass-to-risk.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Haven't seen many Siamese asses.

Paging Richard G..

I think we all have only one ass-to-risk.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany