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Originally Posted by knc1
Slide-rule and analog computer.
These "digital" things are only a passing fad, I don't expect the fad to last.
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Yeah, I remember all those panels full of 10-turn pots. And the plugboards full of cables to connect all those discrete transistor op-amps together. And loading a new application by first yanking out all those cables. But in the physics lab the analog computer spent most of its time running the joysticks for spacewar on the huge round vector display connected to the DIGITAL computer. I wonder how much electricity that giant "analog joystick controller" was using back at the University...
And no comments on using dd for framebuffer pixel plotting? Come on! I think that is just too cool. To you, it may seem like picking your teeth with a crowbar, but I prefer to think of it as trimming your mustache with a table saw...
