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semanticHurt
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
What’s the difference between a computer and a “mobile device”?

OP made a pointless semantic separation.
semanticHurt
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
A legal name change means they stopped making “computers” from an engineers perspective?

Banal political filings have little bearing on what makes a computer.
semanticHurt
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness

Has CPU, memory, storage, and is user programmable.

Smells like a computer to me.

The first “computers” were people. A pedant might say the entire industry moved on from “computers”.