From: "Geo" 

That's not what I meant when I said computers today guess. I meant how
computers today guess at the answer when the problem doesn't have a unique
solution. Example would be how IE guesses file types or how notepad guesses
between text and unicode.

Geo.

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> It was equally bad having people guess things. "I'll switch this dip here
> and that there, and then those jumpers that I just dropped and have no
clue
> about where they should go... I'll just make a neat row of them here,
> that'll do it". I remember a lot of hardware having huge manuals for just
> configuring the stupid dip switches and whatnots, and that it was possible
> to fry things by misconfiguring them. No thanks to that - nowadays, at
least
> you don't have to get your hands dirty to break your computer 
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:44938e6a$2{at}w3.nls.net...
> I kind of prefer the days when computers didn't "guess" at
things. We used
> to have a saying "computers don't make mistakes" but all that changed
now..
>
> Geo.
>   "Rich"  wrote in message news:4493558b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>      You don't expect a mainframe to automatically detect any off the
shelf
> adapter that is plugged in.  The PC could go back to the dark ages too as
> this is how things used to be when the PC first came to be.
>
>   Rich
>
>
>

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