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In article <1990Feb27.1...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, ni...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Nick Christopher) writes:
| > I like the teacher who said "RISC chips are faster than CISC chips
| >  because they have fewer components, so the electrons don't have as far
| >  to go." -- well, yes, but.....
| Reminds me of my AI teacher who had been pursued down to the hardware level
| on the subject of knowledge representation.  The class had a couple of people
| who knew nothing about hardware but wanted an answer about "what a bit was".
| Well the profs final attempt was:
| 	student: what's a bit? how does it represent one or zero?
| 	prof: 	 ever lick a battery?
| 	student: yes....
| 	prof: 	 that tingle - thats a one!
| That put an end to that digression.

That reminded me of one of my earliest programming classes in which
another student asked the instructor the equivalent to the question
"How does a computer actually compute?"  The instructor, rather than
try to fit a course on digital hardware into the remaining few minutes
of the class, gave the memorable reply

		"Magic"
					Rich Strebendt
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