On 05/01/2021 01:38, J. Clarke wrote:
>
> He's talking about something that you can give a pile of object code
> from an unknown source (I mean _really_ unknown--it could be for Z/OS
> or a VAX or Intel or Alpha or any other architecture, compiled from C
> or PL/I or Fortran or pick a language at random, with it figuring from
> there what the code does.
>

Indeed!

I've discussed this before (And probably too often according to
my biographers and stalkers! but I'm interested in computers for
themselves, as wonderful complex machines, and not interested in
what you can use them for.

My frustration lies with the Raspberry Pi series that come,
for very little outlay of pennies, with a multi processor
graphics chip which is believed to exceed the capabilities of
the associated ARM processor but about which no detailed
information is forthcoming.

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