Re: question on LED clock operation


me@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
John S. wrote:

I particularly like the definition from the people who provide
operating systems.

From our good friends at Microsoft: Any device capable of processing
information to produce a desired result. No matter how large or small
they are, computers typically perform their work in three well-defined
steps: (1) accepting input, (2) processing the input according to
predefined rules (programs), and (3) producing output.

That also describes a cow. Or a wood chipper.

Taken within the context of it's location one should be able to assume
that the device described by the author at Microsoft is electronic in
nature. The question was what is a computer. And the language
microsoft provides describes the widest range of computers. It defines
the characteristics that all computing devices have in common.
Computers at their core are doing very simple math, moving data to
different locations and sending instructions to other devices. The
fancy Dell I'm sitting in front of does gazillions of those processes
every second and those results are combined and output in many
different ways.

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