When a Computer Filled the Room.
Anyplace else, a lowly user like me had to submit an input card deck at a window like a bank teller's, wait till the next day, and pick up the resulting printout at another window. If you were using matrices (arrays of numbers), as we did in finite element analysis, you could run out of memory very...
| Publicado en: | Liberty (08941408) Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 35 - 41 |
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| Sumario: | Anyplace else, a lowly user like me had to submit an input card deck at a window like a bank teller's, wait till the next day, and pick up the resulting printout at another window. If you were using matrices (arrays of numbers), as we did in finite element analysis, you could run out of memory very quickly. [...] the vast majority of our effort was directed not to the engineering algorithm itself (the recipe) but to getting past the limitations and getting the darn machine to do what we wanted. |
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