<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 23, 2009, Dave Sill wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Wed, Dec 23, Gordon Swobe wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Where did you buy your computer? I built mine, and I can tell you it runs formal programs in RAM. :)<br></blockquote><br>Really? Not in the CPU? Huh... I though RAM was for storage.<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>But Dave, programs don't even run on the CPU, really all programs do is open and close semiconductor switches. Opening and closing a switch is a pretty mundane thing to do therefore following Mr.Swobe's logic everything any program can do, any possible output a computer can produce, is mundane. Well, that's certainly true when it comes to reading Mr.Swobe's posts on my computer.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div></body></html>