14 Jan
2002
14 Jan
'02
9:45 a.m.
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Derek Peschel wrote:
And so the computer had a moving-needle efficiency
meter on the front
panel, which presumably integrated a series of pulses (similar to the
circuit Tony described earlier). Or I suppose it could have divided the
rate of instruction execution by the rate of drum rotation (since there
was a timing track on the drum anyway). 100% efficiency was attainable
but only by simple programs such as a parity check of the drum.
I bet Mel could do it!
(Yeah, I'm sure we all know this link, but here it is anyway,
just in case.)
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/The-Story-of-Mel.html
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com