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Originally Posted by rmcconachy
It depends on how you define the word "computer". As I alluded to above, Charles Babbage built the first known programmable calculating machines in the early/mid 1800s. All known calculating devices predating them were fixed function (including slide rules). Electronic computers came much later. Have a look at < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer> for a reasonable summary of the computer's history. |
All computers work on electricity. Even the basic hydrogen atom is a binary quantum computer made from and powered on electricity. As far as fixed function, all computers are "fixed function". Even silicon computers have limited quantities of binary combinations. Only Quantum Computers are pure metaphysical In their design and function, and therefore have no limited function, at least not in your lifetime.
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