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I remember in the late 50s our engineering firm sent calculations off to be processed at Stanford Research to be processed at night on one of their IBMs. A 360, I think.
As part of the available service, we could write our own structural and geodetic programs in FORTRAN.
I would love to try that again with modern PC processors which would embarrass those old multi-million dollar machines.
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“I would love to try that again with modern PC processors which would embarrass those old multi-million dollar machines. “
I recompiled a FORTRAN program for my PC (286) and it ran so fast I did not believe it. It was done in the time it normally took for the network to query the VAX 725 and back.
Well, I checked the results; they were identical. I never went back.
As part of the available service, we could write our own structural and geodetic programs in FORTRAN.
I would love to try that again with modern PC processors which would embarrass those old multi-million dollar machines.
If you wanted to piddle with that, you might investigate to see if there isn't a Linux distro that includes a Fortran compiler.
We had a mainframe, but it was time-shared, and I ran some number crunching processes. One Saturday I came in to the office, and when I logged in I got a message from the operator to the effect that I was the only one using the machine. What a difference! I submitted a job, instead of taking 15 minutes it was finished before I could even confirm that it was running properly!And modern PCs are as good as that mainframe was, and then some.