18 Nov
2003
18 Nov
'03
4:41 p.m.
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
Couldn't you make a harvard architecture machine that can modify its own
code? Like a doohickey that punches a card and inserts it into the deck
on the reader?
Peace... Sridhar
(one store for
program and data; programs ARE data) or Harvard
(instructions are in a separate store from data memory) architecture?
Strictly-speaking, Microchip's PICs are NOT COMPUTERS. Of course I
don't
Since when? AFAIK, Harvard architecture machines are computers.
Self-modification of programs is not a requirement.