William Case wrote: > Hi; For any who might be interested in the question I posed a few > minutes ago, I have made some adjustments to quoted paragraph. It now > reads: > > "A digital computer is an appliance that takes in information meaningful > to humans; converts it into electrical data; stores it; may or may not > transform the data; and presents it as information to humans. > > Electrical data consists of a set, or continuous stream, of lower or > higher voltage pulses or bits. Data is transformed by transistors > switching electrical data from one circuit to another. Us old farts would probaly change that to active devices. ALthough I don''t know if anyone has ported Linux ot a 1401 or other Vacuum tube computer. > The possible > transformations are: changing a higher voltage bit to a lower voltage > and vice versa; arithmetic addition of two sets of data bits; and, > moving data from one meaningful location to another meaningful > location within the computer." > > Regards Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >