Holy Crap - an honest-to-God working Turing Machine
My geek-o-meter just melted down.
One of the more interesting characters in early computer history was
Alan Turing. Certainly one of the most
brilliant theorists and designers.
One of his ideas was this:
What is the simplest computer that you can build that would have no computational limits.
Performance is not an issue but simplicity and function is.
There have been Turing Machines written in software and certainly, there must have been Turing Machines built in hardware but I have never seen as elegent an example as the one presented by Mike Davey at
aturingmachine.com:
Just. Wow.
Posted by DaveH at March 27, 2010 6:41 PM
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