Re: high-school presentation, suggestions?

From	Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: high-school presentation, suggestions?
Date	2024-03-23 19:57 -0300
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote or quoted:
>>I explained to the CIO of a large government agency that a particular
>>system wasn't a computer at all because it wasn't a finite automaton,
>
>   What is a computer?
>
>   Is this your own definition, or did you quote it from someone else?
>
>   Are there any other definitions?
>
>   How do you know which definition to choose as the correct one?

Great questions.

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