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Article #620826Re: Implementation of a Turing Machine?
From: maus
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:13
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:13
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On 2018-02-20, Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:11:12 +0000, Gareth's Downstairs Computer ><headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>On 19/02/2018 07:26, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > >>Not enough description of the state machine, though, for >>each state need to know action if 1 or 0 read, whether to >>write back 1 or 0, and next state whether 1 or 0 read. >> >>It is particularly fascinating that a Turing Machine could >>have been built with the technology available at the time >>it was first postualted (1935?) > > I do not think that that is that notable. The machine could have > been made back in Babbage's time. (Too bad Babbage did not come up > with something more immediately practical.) > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirchenko AFAIhaveread, the problem was that it not possible to machine parts to the limits that Babbage's machines needed, at that time. -- greymaus.ireland.ie Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man
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