>HOEWEVER,
>the relationship between the thermodynamics of the system being simulated and
>the thermodynamics of the computer doing tghe simulation is of no consequence
Agreed. There are two ways of looking thermodynamically at a computer model and
this is as software only or as software+hardware+context. The view I was
discussing was the software only. These two views have different and
incompatible energetic properties.
Onar.