full-disclosure - Re: Removing FIred admins

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From: besh at gmx.net (Benjamin Schweizer)
Subject: Re: Removing FIred admins

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Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

| For it to be Turing-*incomplete* there have to be almost no
| programs that it can run.  Basically, if it has enough smarts to
| run a simulator of a Turing Machine, it's Turing-complete - and all
| you need for THAT is a decrement instruction, a 'test and skip next
| if zero' instruction, and a branch instruction.

And unlimited memory (tapes). That's one reason why you can't build a
Turing-complete machine irl. As DRM depends on hardware (that can't be
Turing-complete by nature), DRM can't be Turing-complete, too.

cu

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