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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:

> On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 5:38:37 PM UTC-5, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> In what sense do you mean it isn't conducive to a stored-program
>> microcomputer?  It fetched instructions from ROM and executed them.
>
> The things that are typically called "computers" today are capable of storing
> programs into memory *themselves*, rather than merely executing instructions
> from a read-only medium

But that has no bearing on what I said.  An 8008 executes a stored program.