Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Floppies Date: 20 Sep 2025 18:22:45 GMT Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <10884l7$173em$1@dont-email.me> <1089ge2$1fvl9$8@dont-email.me> <10a68ql$16tjt$1@dont-email.me> <68c6bbc5$0$402$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10a6rp4$1d082$5@dont-email.me> <2d9jplxvcn.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10a6t8d$1d082$8@dont-email.me> <4cnjplxbgm.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10a8lmu$1q6g1$7@dont-email.me> <1s2mplx32v.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <68cdb6b5$0$12931$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <10alus7$57hc$1@news1.tnib.de> <68cebda5$0$3358$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net skO9H//m7k/g6cLYqkSxvA14FnlwP8ZIKbOFA/EaxeKbySd2kN Cancel-Lock: sha1:+yjHMeVW5MWHFZWPvRV21pGm7JU= sha256:hHHdXIU2B+jHnHSPaOmrdGYD1gzVY4M7+H7xSOzGCfE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74649 On 20 Sep 2025 14:43:49 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > A computer is something designed to compute. Which means the actual > computer follow either the Chinese abacus if you want to go back in time > as far as you want. Or you can consider Blaise Pascal if you want to > start with the theory. But your (or my) preferred way to start looking > for the beginning of computing is irrelevant here. The main point is: in > the English world, the history start with the computing thing. > Computations started to be more and more complex and the actual computer > came to life. And the term computer science is obvious on that part. 'Computer' was a job description, not a piece of hardware, until quite recently.