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Overflow Intro. ©2002, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Susan L. Gerhart, Jan G.
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The mailroom is a
computer.
Computers need
programmers to give them orders.
Norman, the mailroom worker, is the computer and the wall of mailboxes is the memory.
Alice the programmer starts by filling some mailboxes with instructions. Then she tells Norman which mailbox to start with and leaves him alone until he comes back to her and says he’s finished.