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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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On 9 Aug 2024 20:54:17 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> In article <v93ln7$b31t$6@dont-email.me>, Lawrence D'Oliveiro 
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>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”.
> 
> It's the tape position.

It doesn’t “count” anything. That’s a von Neumann thing.