8 Nov
2000
8 Nov
'00
4:22 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
Possibly, though my recollection is that it was primarily a matter of
response time. Certainly, there were a number of factors involved in
the success or failure of each.
- don
In addition,
for real time simulation digital machines of that
generation were wholly (too strong?) inadewuate to the task. In
particular, I recall reading about a '60ish project by one of Britain's
Formula One makers to use a computer to control a F1-machine driving
around an actual circuit in lieu of the driver. As I recall the story,
it did not make it beyond the second turn. However, an analogue
computer handled the task quite well. Apocryphal? ???
Anecdotal, how it is done is likely the critical factor, not the hardware
it was implemented on.