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Re:Non-Universality in Computation: The Myth of the Universa... by dhs on Thursday April 16, 2009 @01:35PM (#565488)
Turing's computer was an idealized human - to him, computers were humans who did computations for a living - who were granted infinite time and tape - that's the idealization - to solve exactly one problem. Anything that talks about "x problems per hour" has nothing to do with what he said.

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