Re: high-school presentation, suggestions?

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote or quoted:

I explained to the CIO of a large government agency that a particular
system wasn't a computer at all because it wasn't a finite automaton,

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  What is a computer?
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  Is this your own definition, or did you quote it from someone else?
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  Are there any other definitions?
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  How do you know which definition to choose as the correct one?