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Component Computer

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Computers provide a couple of API callbacks. Note that these can only be called by the computer itself, or its direct neighbors (i.e. other computers that share a face with that computer). Also note that since robots cannot interact with external components they cannot start/stop/query computers, but computers can interact with robots sitting next to them.

Component name: computer.
Callbacks:

• start(): boolean
  Tries to start the computer. Returns true on success, false otherwise. Note that this will also return false if the computer was already running. If the computer is currently shutting down, this will cause the computer to reboot instead.
• stop(): boolean
  Tries to stop the computer. Returns true on success, false otherwise. Also returns false if the computer is already stopped.
• isRunning(): boolean
  Returns whether the computer is currently running.

Example use:

local component = require("component")
local c = component.computer -- get primary computer, e.g. self
print(c.isRunning()) -- definitely true if it's this computer
c.stop() -- basically like computer.shutdown() if it's this computer