"Paul Cupis" <paul@cupis.co.uk> wrote in message
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> It depends on the context - could be anything from a
> modern mobile telephone or PDA though to a desktop
> "workstation" or rack-mounted servers or routers or IBM
> zSeries or mainframes or even Colossus.
>
> All of the above I would regard as being computers, just
> as I'd regard an ATA to be one.

Merely containing circuitry with processing power doesn't make a device a
computer, at least not by the popularly accepted definition of the word.

My motorcycle is classed for taxation purposes as a bicycle (which I
suppose it is, come to think of it..!) but I still get done if I ride in a
bus lane where bicycles are allowed (well most bus lanes, there are a few
councils who have seen the light..!)

Ivor

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