Re: Can a regular Turing Machine provide Protected Memory?

From: David C. Ullrich (ullrich_at_math.okstate.edu)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:05:51 -0500

On 27 Aug 2004 22:16:15 GMT, mtx014@linux.services.coventry.ac.uk
(Robert Low) wrote:

>Peter Olcott <olcott@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>"Robert Low" <mtx014@linux.services.coventry.ac.uk> wrote in message
>>> to solving the halting problem. If there is no TM that can
>>> do some particular task, then a forteriori there is
>>> no TM with 'protected memory' which can do it.
>>A commonly held assumption might prove to be false.
>
>You have no idea what 'a forteriori' means, do you?

uh, to be fair i don't either. if you'd said 'a fortiori'
i'd understand what -that-0 meant...

>Or if you do, you have no idea what the relevance is
>in this situation.
>
>I find it very hard to believe that you are actually
>sincere in all this. But, on the off-chance that
>you are deluded but saveable, I suggest that you
>take a few dozen of these hours that you currently
>spend proving that you don't know what you're
>talking about, and investing them in finding out
>what you're talking about. You claim to have bought
>three books about hits. Read them.

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David C. Ullrich

sorry about the inelegant formatting - typing
one-handed for a few weeks...

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