[geeks] Re: [rescue] RE: Small schools.& elections

[Ken Hansen]

James,

My thought was that the logic is discrete, binary in ENIAC, but in a true analog computer, there are numerous (infinite) states to be processed.

The theory of operation *behind* the logic is not what I am talking about, I am talking about the "logic" of the system as the programmer see it.

I think we are discussing different things, and I suspect we both agree the others points are valid...

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: James Fogg [mailto:jfogg at vicinity.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:30 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [geeks] Re: [rescue] RE: Small schools.& elections


Wait... this is going to get way out of hand...

Even transistor gates are analog, we just saturate them too. Maybe I shouldn't
have said anything.

And yes, many of the tube computers used transformers driven to saturation.
And nothing is more analog than a vacuum tube (except a common wall clock, but
thats another, more philosophical, discussion and can get hairy).