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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of
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Date: 9 Aug 2024 20:54:17 -0000
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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.
--scott
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