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From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
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Robert, we've really got to chip in and get you a new newsreader :)

In addition to the occasional double-post, it also seems to have trouble
keeping the attributions straight. I didn't say any of the text below.

"Robert Dewar" <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8tl8dv$ldu$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
: In article <87d7gikvnd.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>,
:   Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
: > "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> writes:
: >
: > > : Oh, one last thing: a TM cannot "exist".  (Does that fall
: under your
: > > : definition of "do ANYTHING"?)  A TM has an infinitely long
: tape, whereas
: > > : we can only build machines with finite memories.
:
: It is not true that a TM has an infinitely long tape (that's
: a meaningless idea really), it has a sufficiently long tape.
:
: And yes, we can build such a machine, we just keep building
: more and more tape as it is needed :-)
:
: That way we can keep the TM computing for as long as we like.
:
:
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: Before you buy.