[cctalk] Re: terminology [was: First Personal Computer]

if it only manipulates numeric data, it is a calculator. It must be able to search, rearrange look up, compare, and display characters. I would have thought that to be obvious. I don'care if it has 99 terabites of high speed memory and does fourier transforms in minus 0 seconds, if it cannot give a text description of the answer, it is a calculator. Also something about arbritray branches to any location (ok, any executable location if something has separate code and data memory).