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A comment on Ask HN: Should the CPU be compared to the mitochondrion instead of the brain?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Should the CPU be compared to the mitochondrion i... by l3robot on Monday February 27, 2017 @04:37PM (#13748415)
You are absolutely right, I wanted to say the ribosome was. I confused both. My bad.
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Re:Ask HN: Should the CPU be compared to the mitochondrion i... by gus_massa on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:29PM (#13750033)
Ribosomes! Not a bad idea.

Anyway, I think that ribosomes have a very restrictive type of "calculation", you can compare them with a Jackard Loom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom or a Pianola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano . Perhaps an old programmable calculator.

Currently the CPU have a lot more of computational abilities.

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