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Old Oct 9, 2003, 09:28 am   #18 (permalink) (top)
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not at all, an abacus is simply a board with sliding beads... it cannot be programmed to do anything, the technology of an abacus does not even come close... while it is true that a computer is nothing but many series of on and off switches, the sheer numbers of switches/beads and programability of the computer makes it a totally different kind of machine... besides, an abacus cannot talk whereas computers can (at least have the ability to be programmed to "imitate" speech ...)


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