They had pencil, paper, slide rules, and brains. The modern computer may be faster, but not necessarily smarter.
I still carry a Decilon around with me. Just to convince myself that 64-bit floating point doesn't guarantee a better or simpler (or necessarily faster) answer :-) Grant/NQ5T > While the Bell System used astonishingly complex filters for carrier > telephone service in the 1950's calculating them without modern computers > must have been extremely difficult > _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
