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Quote: the state of the machine at one prepulse is completely determined by its state at the previous one; consists of electronic store, accumulator, and instruction number
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The state of the reduced machine at any … ii) the content of the accumulator. … iii) the content of the control, or instruction … [p. 8] We are not however interested in the … content to know its state at isolated moments … consecutive such moments Fortunately the construction of the … 'prepulses' or 'completion signals' occur. The state of … [some instructions take longer than one prepulse]. … It is usually to describe [the transition function] in terms … Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: programming is not interested in the state of the machine at every moment; only at prepulses Quote: the transition function is 'obeying an instruction'
Topic: what is a computer (62 items)
Topic: discrete vs. continuous (47 items)
Topic: event time (44 items)