Quoting Chris Higgins <chris.higgins at darach.ie>:
> They always stick in some hardware, but that seems to be
> mostly a throw back to the electrical/electronic heritage
> of the original founders of more computer science departments.
Except that we don't have a mathematical Turing machine, we have
a physical and fallible one. Building a machine from chips and
wire and writing a basic monitor teaches you how to dig below the
metaphor and diagnose insanity on a serial line when you see it.
And I think most of us have seen it....
Ronan
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