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| From | "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: Is binary a "language"? |
| Date | 2011-04-12 17:00 +0200 |
| Organization | Informatimago |
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"osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" wrote:
>
>> Decimal computers used electronic tubes with ten states.
>
> Can you provide a reference to such a computer that ever got out of
> someone's basement? My guess is that you can not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
Perhaps you could learn some computing history.
After all it's less than a hundred years of history, even a lazy bumb
could have some notions.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.
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Re: Is binary a "language"? "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2011-04-12 16:33 +0200
Re: Is binary a "language"? "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2011-04-12 09:46 -0500
Re: Is binary a "language"? "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2011-04-12 17:00 +0200
Re: Is binary a "language"? "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2011-04-12 10:11 -0500
Re: Is binary a "language"? spinoza1111 <spinoza1111@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-15 06:07 -0700
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Re: Is binary a "language"? spinoza1111 <spinoza1111@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-16 06:58 -0700
Re: Is binary a "language"? "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2011-04-15 19:23 +0200
Re: Is binary a "language"? spinoza1111 <spinoza1111@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-16 07:19 -0700
Re: Is binary a "language"? "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2011-04-17 02:30 +0200
Re: Is binary a "language"? Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> - 2011-04-24 15:37 -0700
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Re: Is binary a "language"? "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2011-04-15 19:12 +0200
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