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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by roywiggins on Sunday September 01, 2019 @03:38PM (#20854301)
Modern computers aren't really based on the Turing machine idea any more than they're based on the Lambda calculus, and I think it's questionable that the early computers were intentionally modelled on it.
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