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What’s interesting is that although the difference between computers of the 1960s and those we have today is greater than the difference between, say, a horse a
by Koshkin 7y ago
What’s interesting is that although the difference between computers of the 1960s and those we have today is greater than the difference between, say, a horse and a fighter jet, the principles of controlling (programming) them are still the same...
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- fishnchips 7y agoDo you mean the difference in power? I still find horses and fighter jets more different than early and modern computers.
- nine_k 7y agoLikely speed and user-visible complexity. A horse has a really basic interface.
- fishnchips 7y agoNot the debugging interface though :)
- Merrill 7y agoPartly because we recapitulated the development from 8 or 16-bit instruction sets three times: 1) mainframe (discrete transistors/tubes and magnetic memory), 2) minicomputer (TTL ICs and solid state memory), and 3) personal computers (microprocessor chips). And then there were dial-up and hard-wired cluster controller networks, various LAN networks, and then internet protocol networks to go along with timesharing, client server, and cloud. Plus ça change....
- jibal 7y agoHorses and fighter jets operate on different principles in different media, whereas computers of the 1960s and today are all based on the von Neumann stored program model. Also, programming today is different in many ways from programming in the 1960s.