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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
- Subject: Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
- From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:35:18 +0000 (UTC)
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- Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening
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In article <QuSLa.52204$XE4.38419@fe05.atl2.webusenet.com>,
Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com> wrote:
> I agree that a computer can compute, but a computer is not limited to
> computation. Computers originally were limited to computation and
> that is what they were originally used for. The very idea of having
> a computer be able to display/print text is a recent inovation.
> Today only a minority of what a computer does can be thought of as
> computational. Today computers do far more text and graphical
> displaying than computation. The ability to handle text and graphics
> requires computation at some level, but that is not what the thread
> is about.
The French word for computer is "ordinateur", i.e. "orderer" ....
And very early in the age of computers (i.e. in the 1950's and early
1960's), in Sweden they were called "electronic brains" or "mathematical
machines"....
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