Systems v. Machines
The more I think about class today the more I realize that I do not agree that the term “system” and the term “machine” can be easily interchanged wily nilly. With the loose definition of a machine every machine could be considered a system, however I doubt that every system is a Machine. One very well could make the argument, however I think that many people would consider this to be the case. Next time Dean Wilcox and Bob king teach the course I really think that to eliminate confuction the ue of the term “machine” should be limited. Not that I think the course should be completely free from confusion, I just don’t think that this confusion is advantageous to people not being constrained to limmits of the assignment that are not really there. Something that could be interesting would be the first assignment being defined as a “System” and the second or third being the same rules except it is referd to as a machine. What would people do? Would that wise up and not make any changes?
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