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I mean, it sounds weird now, but back then the assembler would indeed have eaten up precious CPU time. Imagine if, nowadays, a grad student took a node in a sc
by lou1306 5y ago
I mean, it sounds weird now, but back then the assembler would indeed have eaten up precious CPU time.
Imagine if, nowadays, a grad student took a node in a scientific cluster to run Dreamweaver in a Windows VM instead of writing HTML by hand. (Sorry, it's the closest analogy I could come up with)
- zetalyrae 5y agovon Neumann was probably the most intelligent person ever documented. He was probably frustrated that people couldn't see the machine code fully formed in their mind's eye :)
- runlaszlorun 5y agoAgreed! I also think that von Neumann (and some of his contemporaries as well) were likely the last to be able to understand the entire breadth of math, physics, and computer science at the time. These days we’re all far too specialized…