Related: [[../../../2024-09-16 Unix Lecture 1|2024-09-16 Unix Lecture 1]]
Summary summary
They are programmable, automatic, and universal
- programmable: the nature of operations that must be performed can be specified completely and exclusively by the text of a program
- automatic: once a program is launched/executed, the computer will perform the program without external assistance
- universal: can execute any program - any sequence of primitive actions describing a procedure to obtain the desired result