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The largest computer ever built
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Yeah, they're legitimate "research" projects, not "engineering" projects. No usable device is expected to be produced and put into service at the end. People funding that research are buying knowledge, not useful systems.
If you're in Bay Area, it (well, some pieces of it) is on display in Computer History Museum - http://www.computerhistory.org/VirtualVisibleStorage/artifac...
Thanks for the link. This is mind-blowing:
The software was written by The Rand Corporation and the System Development Corporation (SDC) and employed about 20% of the world’s programmers at the peak of the project.
The software was written by The Rand Corporation and the System Development Corporation (SDC) and employed about 20% of the world’s programmers at the peak of the project.
This web design is terrible. I expect better from the Computer History Museum.
I tried Chrome, Safari and Firefox on OS X and it looks terrible in all of them.
I tried Chrome, Safari and Firefox on OS X and it looks terrible in all of them.
Not sure why you were downvoted -- I agree. The text scrolls off the right side of my browser (maybe b/c I'm not full-screen)? It drives me nuts when sites assume a minimum width of your browser, but this example is especially severe.
"Core Memory" .. that brings back a memory. I worked on an unrelated system while in the USAF that had 512 bytes of core memory. We had a problem where the data was getting corrupted some of the time, particularly on a message indicator byte that disrupted flow control. After a day of oscilloscope work, it turned out that one core in the array had gone bad, and it just happened to be in the "wrong" place.
The system had been designed in the mid 1960's, and this particular core array had been running since 1970 or so, and this was 1985. So 14 or so years of continuous uptime. There's something to be said about building hardware at the macro size, not the micro size. ;)
The system had been designed in the mid 1960's, and this particular core array had been running since 1970 or so, and this was 1985. So 14 or so years of continuous uptime. There's something to be said about building hardware at the macro size, not the micro size. ;)
3-112-0_Theory_Of_Programming_Apr59.pdf is quite interesting.
"Our grandfathers knew about fault tolerance"
Just our grandfathers, and not our grandparents as a whole?
Just our grandfathers, and not our grandparents as a whole?
Women were involved with programming from a fairly early date (you can find videos by Judith Clapp on youtube describing her involvement). As far as I know, they didn't have anything to do with the fault tolerant systems, or designing the computer itself.
Therefore: yes, "grandfathers" is the correct word to use. Both in the English language sense, and in the gender sense in this instance.
I'm sorry you think it is more productive to call out perceived slights to your gender, rather than doing something awesome. I guess it's a lot easier kvetching than, you know, actually doing something.
I'm sorry you think it is more productive to call out perceived slights to your gender, rather than doing something awesome. I guess it's a lot easier kvetching than, you know, actually doing something.
Given the time period in question, I think it's quite likely that all the people working on this project were men.
Unless your grandmother was Rear Admiral "Amazing" Grace Hopper?
I did consider her, but during the period in question she was working at UNIVAC on compilers.
I was fighting the generalization, not the details.
Well, our grandmothers had to tolerate our grandfathers' faults. That's probably enough to ask.
"Grandfather" also means 'ancestor'.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grandfather
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grandfather
Your own 'ancestor' link is a referal to the definition of father of parent. It's not gender neutral.
Another case ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause
Okay, miss.
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Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
Boy, that wording rubs me the wrong way. This stuff is known as "research". Yes, that makes it highly uncertain. No, that does not make it an illegitimate project.