On 12/7/2011 4:36, Invisible wrote:
> http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/071

I read way back when transistors were something you bought one at a time 
about various smart devices built on just a small number of transistors. For 
example, there were little carts that would go and seek out bright spaces 
near other carts with a light on top until their batteries started to run 
down, at which point they'd go find a dark spot to recharge. That one was, 
IIRC, like three transistors worth of logic. So yeah, surprisingly 
complicated behavior can arise out of very simple logic. (Or more 
appropriately we only think it's surprisingly complicated.)

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   People tell me I am the counter-example.

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