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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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On 8 Aug 2024 09:21:29 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> 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”.