The Power of the NORC 3765
All of them. The couple of EE degree programs were a joke, too. (This was in the late 60s and early 70s.) With the space program, EE degree programs became a production line of churning out bodies. This did not train those kids to know the underlying physics; all they did was memorize formulas.
Yup. And that branch is going to need gazillion CPU-centuries of runtime. Now, think about who is going to do the coding. Script bunnies who believe that every thing can be produced the moment it is wished for? Or people who know the physical limitations of the universe, not to mention the existence of different measuring systems.
Of course. But our biz' roots stem from that kind of small thinking. It was the time when production line BSs became normal. The...
And then you have the physcists of the JMF and Dennis flavors who did organize code. Now, Livermore may still have card punch fever, but it's been infiltrated with people who cut their eye teeth on TOPS-10 with JMF's mentorship. You aren't talking to the "right" people :-). They ain't going to wave their flags. JMF taught people to shut up and code and to let those who couldn't flap their lips. It keeps them busy and out of the hair of those who are doing real work.
Quite true. business man, and another boss once told the architect of the Convex to leave the supercomputer business and sell their great compiler technology to Cray. But I post Gosper's observation...
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