Hardware Hobbyists vs. Emulator Enthusiasts vs Replica Recreators

[Ray Arachelian]

Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Oh good lord.  Can we give this up?  SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT
> COMPUTING IS MORE THAN JUST SOFTWARE.  Get over it.
You're right.  People believe lots of interesting, and strange stuff.

But maybe I'm missing something here, so remind me again, just how does
one get a Von Neumann architecture machine to *COMPUTE* something
without that machine invoking any instruction/opcode/microcode at all?