[Coco] Turing (was: Printing on a Coco with modern printers.)

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Well, actually, the Turing Completeness principle, which usually involves 
turing machines at one point in the reasoning, but is really about the set 
of all possible types of computing that are sufficiently equivalent.

When comparing commercially sold computers, though, the proof is easy : 
they're all essentially the same thing as the von Neumann model, or a 
multi-CPU version thereof.

You could even boot Windows 7 or Ubuntu 13 on a 6809, if you had the 
appropriate emulator and plenty of time to waste. If you do it with just 
512k of RAM, just the boot process could mean swapping diskettes from a 
truck-sized set of 5000 diskettes full-time for a few months... or more.


Le 2014-01-11 à 11:50:00, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) a écrit :

> Thats the turing machine principle....

> On 2014-01-11 11:28 AM, "John Donaldson" <johnab8yz at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> I once read an article that stated that the most simple computer can do
>> anything a larger faster computer can do as long as the simple computer has
>> enough memory and you can wait a long long time for it to crunch the
>> numbers.

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