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Re: Is binary a "language"?

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
Message-ID <87lizfcy54.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <imddm2$und$1@speranza.aioe.org> <slrniokhrq.21f1.willem@toad.stack.nl> <cd16012d-31fa-442e-a3b1-7b125ca6c957@a17g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <87wrizczf3.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <90j6tbFlrfU1@mid.individual.net>

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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"? spinoza1111 <spinoza1111@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-12 05:57 -0700
  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
          Re: Is binary a "language"? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-04-15 14:40 +0100
            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
      Re: Is binary a "language"? spinoza1111 <spinoza1111@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-15 06:01 -0700
    Re: Is binary a "language"? spinoza1111 <spinoza1111@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-15 05:40 -0700
      Re: Is binary a "language"? "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2011-04-15 19:12 +0200
        Re: Is binary a "language"? spinoza1111 <spinoza1111@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-16 07:15 -0700

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