22 May
2018
22 May
'18
4:37 p.m.
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 02:31:58AM +0000, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote:
[...]
www.cadhistory.net<http://www.cadhistory.net>
The Engineering Design Revolution<http://www.cadhistory.net/>
www.cadhistory.net
The Engineering Design Revolution. The People, Companies and
Computer Systems That Changed Forever the Practice of
Engineering. By. David E. Weisberg
Looks interesting. Thanks a lot for bringing this up.
My question is, did any of the source code for these
systems,
Applicon, Auto-Trol, Calma, ComputerVision, thousands of lines of
primarily FORTRAN ever make it out, where we could read and study
this original body of mathematical geometry done on computers?
I suspect you already know, but just to be sure:
"The BRL-CAD source code repository is the oldest known public
version-controlled codebase in the world that's still under active
development, dating back to 1983-12-16 00:10:31."
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD ]
I could not verify this claim, because I could not load SourceForge
page before my patience ran out (thank you, Javascript, I guess).
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Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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