10 Aug
2012
10 Aug
'12
9:04 a.m.
On 8/10/2012 1:51 AM, Mouse wrote:
And of course with out simulators modern hardware never could be made.
Simulators
also help do something with software that running
artifacts can't do. [...]
Yes...this whole discussion of whether simulators are better than the
real thing strikes me as rather silly. Simulators and original
hardware are different. For some purposes, one is better; for others,
the other. I'm glad we have both, and would be sorry to lose either. Not entirely unlike hands-on versus just-look museum
exhibits.
Back to FORTRAN. At one time utilities for new hardware (1970's) was
written in FORTRAN to
portable. Any idea what machines they expected the programs to be ran on?
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