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Wow... "In 1967, Danny Cohen developed the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general purpose computer. " - I'm always amazed at some of the things pe
by davidw 7y ago
Wow... "In 1967, Danny Cohen developed the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general purpose computer. " - I'm always amazed at some of the things people managed to do "way back when", when my mental image is of people with punch cards.
Here's an article I found about his flight simulator work, among other things.
https://www.wired.com/2012/11/he-engineered-the-internet-to-take-flight/ https://www.wired.com/2012/11/he-engineered-the-internet-to-...
- mhandley 7y agoVideo from that flight simulator is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a88Ixuv084 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a88Ixuv084 This video seems to be from 1973 (not 1970, as the title says), when the flight simulator was actually running as a distributed application over the ARPAnet!
- greesil 7y agoIt's fun to note that apparently Pong was invented in 1972.
- ian0 7y ago>>I'm always amazed at some of the things people managed to do "way back when" Its insane. The first time I saw the mother of all demos[0] (also from around that time) I couldn't help but think "How the hell have we only come this after 50 years". [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
- jacquesm 7y agoIn some ways it is a step back. The mother of all demos is pure function, zero form. If all those cycles going to form would go to function there would be an amazing jump forward in speed. Try a really old version of windows on modern hardware for an idea of what I'm getting at.
- eismcc 7y ago>And there is one last piece of insight that drives Cohen, and is perhaps the key to it all. “Always remember, that just because we don’t know how to do it, is not a reason for us not to do it.”