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Anything a real PC does, given infinite space and creativity. You're just simulating binary physically.
would it not still be digitally?
digitally physical?
my head hurts..
It is a bit confusing.
Minecraft is a digital simulation of a physical (albeit blocky) world.
If we treat minecraft as a physical world (one simulated, but that's beside the point), we can claim that it's a (simulated) physical simulation.
Digital (discrete, e.g. binary) is mutually exclusive with analog (continuous, e.g. voltage), but either can be either physical (existing in the real world), or virtual (simulated, represented).
A digital clock can be physical or virtual. A virtual clock can be digital or analog.
Btw I don't think it makes sense to say redstone computers are "simulating binary", at least not any more than real computers do. It's just another digital computer, running in a virtual environment rather than a physical one.
Yes, calculating with moving parts are how the first computers/calculators worked. Nowadays, you'll usually see them represented by relay computers, which are usually an educational experiment, or meant to be used in harsh environments where a modern computer couldn't function properly.
Anything an 8-bit pc can do. There are technical limits to what Minecraft can handle and
People have built 16 bit and 32 bit computers in Minecraft, the tighter restraint is the limited clock speed (resulting from suboptimal simulation efficiency)
And by limited, we mean like, on the order of Hertz probably.