Definition of a Computer

Jules Richardson julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Apr 7 06:09:44 CDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 18:46 -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
> Megan wrote:
> > Years ago, someone (I don't remember who) gave the definition of a
> > computer as a "device which inputs some stuff, does some stuff to
> > it, and outputs some other stuff".
> 
> Which is presumably not actually very useful as a definition of a computer,
> since a cow would qualify.

That'd be a cowputer, though.




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