[geeks] Re: [rescue] RE: Absolutely nothing to do with 'Small schools.& elections'

[Ken Hansen]

Display? We couldn't even imagine a computer being able to display anything, we just "knew" what was going on in the game... Geez, anyone can play if you can just see the game in front of you... ;^)

Ken
(Seriously though, I know of no reason why a turing machine couldn't have a display - it has a state, and it needs to communicate it to the user, so I would imagine in the strictest sense it would have to have a display, but the display may not be of a form familiar to today's "pampered" users, maybe a series of blue LEDs, or a scrolling LED array, like those found in grocery stores... ;^)

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:18 PM
To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [geeks] Re: [rescue] RE: Absolutely nothing to do with
'Small schools.& elections'


Is it really a turing machine if it can drive a display?

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Joshua Boyd

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> Ever tried to play Doom on a Turing machine? That was rough... (but it did run Linux!)

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