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Originally Posted by bkadoctaj
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Okay, there was such a thing between a laptop and a PC. It was made by IBM and basically amounted to a very large laptop that could be carried around. I learned about it in MASM Assembler class in Computer Science.
Also, I don't know if the jump from punch cards/vacuum tubes to semiconductor's/IC's constitutes a valid analogy from monkeys to humans.
Computers that are "self-aware" are something that is referred to by movies such as Terminator 2. The only things that computers these days seem to be aware of is there "environment", meaning the cards, chips and other components that comprise their running state including their BIOS version and other details that are usually only meaningful to the operation of the system anyways.
An algorithm that would make the "link" between vacuum tubes and semiconductors would need probably historical information indicating said link in order to "reason" about the origin of it's "species".
Nonetheless, I would expect such a computer to come to the conclusion that human-kind developed computers, which is absolutely true.
http://www.old-computers.com/