my first PC going to college in 1988, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPC_512 4.7Mhz, 512kb RAM and a floppy drive, it could run a fortran compiler (rather slowly) Although if you had access to a TV and a power socket at…
It's great until you need to allocate 3.9Gb of vector on a 32bit machine. Somebody said computer science is solving yesterdays problems on tomorrows hardware, the rest of science is solving tomorrows problems on…
my first PC going to college in 1988, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPC_512 4.7Mhz, 512kb RAM and a floppy drive, it could run a fortran compiler (rather slowly) Although if you had access to a TV and a power socket at…
It's great until you need to allocate 3.9Gb of vector on a 32bit machine. Somebody said computer science is solving yesterdays problems on tomorrows hardware, the rest of science is solving tomorrows problems on…