From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 9 Aug 2024 20:54:17 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
      
   > In article , Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   >  wrote:   
   >>On 8 Aug 2024 09:21:29 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On 07 Aug 2024 15:04:21 GMT, Aharon Robbins wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> A CS professor I know told me this last week:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>       I'm one of the very few that teach Systems. It amazes me that   
   >>>>>       our PhD students almost all in AI have never heard of a   
   >>>>>       program counter.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>“Program counter” ... is that a von Neumann thing?   
   >>>   
   >>> Turing.   
   >>   
   >>The Turing Machine never had a “program counter”.   
   >   
   > It's the tape position.   
      
   It doesn’t “count” anything. That’s a von Neumann thing.   
      
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