Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!tj
From: tj@mks.UUCP (T. J. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Turing machine simulation (was Vi macros)
Summary: Any realization of an abstract idea (or ideal)
	 can be considered a simulation.
Message-ID: <406@mks.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 01:23:53 GMT
References: <11893@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <11893@brl-adm.ARPA>, dsill@nswc-oas.arpa (Dave Sill) writes:
> Turing machines are universal computational devices, but simulations
> of Turing Machines are not.

I would be curious to see a defence of this claim.
Consider, for example, a simulation of a Turing machine
run on a Turing machine.
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