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Can’t any computer with external connectivity (ie serial or network connectivity) be considered to have infinite memory?

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A computer with external connectivity to a tape machine capable of reading and writing a symbols and moving along the tape would qualify as a Turing machine, provided someone feeds it enough tape for any problem that's thrown at it.

How would that work?

"we're the dot in dot.com"

No wait ... the other one ...

"the network is the computer"

It was funny when Sun proudly and unilaterally proclaimed that Sun put the "dot" into "dot com", leaving it wide open for Microsoft to slyly counter that oh yeah, well Microsoft put the "COM" into "dot com" -- i.e. ActiveX, IE, MSJVM, IIS, OLE, Visual Basic, Excel, Word, etc!

And then IBM mocked "When they put the dot into dot-com, they forgot how they were going to connect the dots," after sassily rolling out Eclipse just to cast a dark shadow on Java. Badoom psssh!

https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/ibm-brings-on-demand-computin...

"The Network Is The Network and The Computer Is The Computer. We regret the confusion."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34256623

>Oh yeah, don't get me started about NFS! (Oops, too late.) I'll just link with short summaries: [...]

>NFS originally stood for "No File Security". [...]

>The network is the computer is insecure, indeed.

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