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Are transistors the fundamental components of all computers?

Achilles
in Computer Science

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On ‎07‎/‎09‎/‎2018 at 4:08 AM, Achilles said:

Anything that requires user input. Is transistors at the heart of it, acting as on and off switches which equate to values (most commonly 1's and 0's)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpk67YzOn5w

Have you never heard of COLOSSUS - the worlds first semi-programmable computer, at Bletchley park, UK during WW2? It used many thermionic valves - before Transistors were invented.....  A Repro version, works to this day...

 

 

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On ‎9‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 11:08 PM, Achilles said:

Anything that requires user input. Is transistors at the heart of it, acting as on and off switches which equate to values (most commonly 1's and 0's)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpk67YzOn5w

Computers do not have components that are more important then the other.  Remove the language and nothing happens, enter the language without a CPU, or ram nothing happens.  It's analogous to what is more important in you, your brain or heart, or liver or skin.  It all has to be there in synchronicity.   

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