7 Apr
2005
7 Apr
'05
5:48 p.m.
Tom Jennings wrote:
> For a stored program, automatic, digital, computer, the thing that
> distinguishes it from other human artifacts is this one
> simple-seeming thing: the machine that modifies itself.
Problem is, AFIAK this list is not just about stored-program digital
computers... Analogue machines are on-topic, so arguably are machines
that can't change their own program.