The point, however, is to find the first such formulation, just as Turing found the first formulation of the general-purposecomputer.
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Newman went on to found the computing laboratory at Manchester University which produced a prototype of the first programmable general-purposecomputer.
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This was accomplished with two general-purposecomputer channels with plated-wire memories (.pdf), each with an 18,000-word storage capacity.
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That creates the possibility of using slime molds to build new types of general-purposecomputers.
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Now, a group of researchers has shown these amoeba-like single-cell organisms could be used to build general-purposecomputers.