11th October 2005, 8:05 PM
I can see that. Fire hot, fire bad!
But anyway, as far as I can tell the most likely explanation is the Genie, while it couldn't write to it, certainly wasn't prevented from burning out the chip.
But anyway, as far as I can tell the most likely explanation is the Genie, while it couldn't write to it, certainly wasn't prevented from burning out the chip.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)