Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Turing Machines and V. Neumann computer


Turing Machines are a theoretical and mathematical concept.  They are considered the base of all computers nowdays.  Turing Machine sounds like a very difficult concept, process, etc.  But actually the work with very simple instructions in a tape with 0s & 1s.  Todays computers are based in a Von Neumann architecture, talking about physical components, so in theory the architecture of a Von Neumann computer is based in a Turing Machine.  Both have similarities, from basic concepts to the things that they do.  Actual, modern computers in theory the have more variables, but they need some basic things like a CPU and a RAM, they also have very similar concepts.  Now I will show similarities between Von Neumann computers and Turing machines and other things like what can they do or the components, etc.



Turing Machines and Von Neuman computers have many similarities.  They have two main components the CPU and the memory for the Von Neumann computer and for the Turing machines the Read/Write head and the tape.

This is a CPU.

This is a basic example of a Turing Machine.

Both follow a set of instructions, in the case of the Turing Machine very simple instructions,  The lenguaje that both use is the binary code,

This is an  example of a binary code (0s & 1s).



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