[j-pb]

That doesn't make a lot of sense given the novel hardware that runs in a lot of chips these days. TPUs, neural accellerators, perceptron branch prediction, flash based neural networks.

Thise are not abstractions over existing posix APIs or von neumann architectures, they are novel ways to do computation from a different branch of math.

Heck we don't even know if some of these are not breaking the church turing thesis by computing with true real numbers and not the computable subset that turing machines can handle.

[ghoshbishakh]

Everything is discrete. Computers cannot handle "true" real numbers.

[j-pb]

Digital computer cannot handle true real numbers.

Analog computers MIGHT.

It really depends on how quantized our universe is. If you have papers that show full quantization including tunneling probabilities e.t.c please share them! The physical existence of the reals has been a white whale of mine for some time ^^'.