15 Feb
2008
15 Feb
'08
1:04 p.m.
Brent Hilpert wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
My thinking was that the astronomical cost needed to get a device of unknown
speed and reliability (which might not prove more efficient than the human
workers it would replace) into production put a damper on most plans - people
could likely see that a computer (in the electronic / electro-mechnical sense)
would work, but not necessarily be able to judge how well...
cheers
Jules
Brent Hilpert wrote:
With a (large) digital system what's the difference? It was a concern which did
have to be addressed (with techniques like margin checking, amongst others) to
get useful production/uptime out of the machines. Refer to Will's earlier
mention of probability and statistics. The idea of building such large systems was
considered daunting or simply implausible even in the 1940's
I think the
issues there revolved largely around a belief that the end result
simply wouldn't work to the required spec, rather than it not being possible
to do at all.