¿Puede pensar una máquina?
¿Puede pensar una máquina? The executive unit is the part which carries out the various individual operations involved in a calculation. What these individual operations are will vary from machine to machine. Usually fairly lengthy operations can be done such as «Multiply 3540675445 by 7076345687» but in some machines only very simple ones such as «Write down 0» are possible.
We have mentioned that the «book of rules» supplied to the computer is replaced in the machine by a part of the store. It is then called the «table of instructions». It is the duty of the control to see that these instructions are obeyed correctly and in the right order. The control is so constructed that this necessarily happens.