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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ram is literally just the tape. Modern computers are just multitape turing machines, albeit the tape ends at some point.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Technically a multitape Turing machine is a Turing machine.