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loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months agoDo you really think people could make programmable microchips and processing units before they figured out physics?
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loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months agoDo you really think people could make programmable microchips and processing units before they figured out physics?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No, but mechanical concerns mputwrs existed before microchips. They just weren’t terribly useful
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Once I get my mechanical computer to run crysis we’ll see who’s laughing.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Wouldn’t you also need to know physics in order to make a mechanical computer?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not necessarily. We had the theory before both calculus and physics.
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
What kind of argumentation is this? Are we talking about mechanical engineering or computer science? Please don’t bent reality the way it fits your shape.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_computer
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I know what mechanical computers are. But computer scientists will not be building them 'nor program them, it’s not what computer science is about when you go to a university to study it.