{"id":1769,"date":"2014-09-18T01:37:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T06:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2014-09-08T07:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T12:41:10","slug":"the-computer-as-io-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/09\/the-computer-as-io-device\/","title":{"rendered":"The Computer as I\/O Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most of today\u2019s \u201ccomputers\u201d are nothing but I\/O devices to the cloud. Persons like me who use a computer that is in front of us are rare and disappearing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is a little, historical lesson on computing. A computer has three basic parts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>processor<\/li>\n<li>memory<\/li>\n<li>input\/output (I\/O)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That\u2019s it folks. Nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to our post(post(post(post)))-modern world. Now you can buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9250544\/Coming_soon_No_name_tablets_priced_under_35?source=rss_latest_content\">computer for $35<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That computer is more powerful than\u2026yes, it is time for an old person to tell you that the $35, no-name tablet is more power than took us to the moon in 1969 or some other ancient reference about building the pyramids.<\/p>\n<p>Enough history. Today, that computer has one use: I\/O. Sure, you can play Flappy Bird or something on it, but its real use is to access the big computer in the sky, a.k.a., the cloud. It seems that 90% of the computers we have today do the same thing: I\/O to the cloud. That leaves 9% of the computers to be the cloud, and a little 1% to be actual computers that old persons like me use as computers.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it is odd to be old and actually use a computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Most of today\u2019s \u201ccomputers\u201d are nothing but I\/O devices to the cloud. Persons like me who use a computer that is in front of us are rare and disappearing. Here is a little, historical lesson on computing. A computer has three basic parts: processor memory input\/output (I\/O) That\u2019s it folks. Nothing else. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,83,3],"tags":[143,200,126],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-computing","category-technology","tag-change","tag-computing","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}