clipka wrote:
> - Even its 1943 successor, "Colossus", was not Turing-complete, and 
> programmable only by re-wiring.

Just to avoid confusion, everyone should be aware that Turing machines are 
programmable only by re-wiring. Those two clauses have nothing to do with 
each other. :-)

> Programmable computers? A German invention.

Needing to rewire something doesn't make it non-programmable. It just makes 
it non-von Neumann.

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