29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
1:06 a.m.
Sean Conner wrote:
In college [1], one of my bosses [2] worked on an
analog computer. It was
this huge hulking box, maybe 10' long, 6' high, and maybe 1 or 2' deep that
you programmed by plugging wires into various modules.
Or as someone said to me yesterday about the TR-48, it's just like a large
kids' electronics kit :-)
Ah, but the Connection Machine---now *that* was an
interesting
architecture. 65,536 1-bit CPUs that you would program in a varient of
Lisp.
Perhaps one of the most impressive-looking machines ever made, too. I'd love
to see one working one day (but as has been discussed on here in the past, I
don't think there are any survivors this side of the pond)