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- In article <4l5oes$f05@the-fly.zip.com.au> gregh@sci-fi-bbs.zip.com.au (Greg Hope) writes:
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- > In article <4ksosh$nvu@fnord.dfw.net> hybrid@star.slinknet.com (Chris Hall) writes:
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- > > A set top box is a computer. The term "Set top box" is getting a bad wrap
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- > Are you sure? I was under the impression it can mean a lot of other things
- > that arent a computer but can use the guts of an Amiga anyway.
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- Yes it is... But it needs to be expanded on... A base "Set
- Top Box" would be what I know of as an "embedded computer" -- which,
- in a way, includes the Atari 2600 game console.
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- These are all computers, but they have limited RAM (scratch
- pad memory) with all programming in ROM... HP printers are
- computers... but the closest you get to a programming language is
- PCL; Postscript printers ARE general purpose computers if fed from a
- serial port -- I believe the PS references do have a mode in which
- one can inquire variable values...
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