Thank you Roger. Most inspiring. I love this para, which recalls the difficulties computing pioneers laboured under...
"The machine computations were begun during the final testing of [the Harvard] Mark IV when the machine was first coming into operation. Hence conditions were far from ideal and the lack of experience in programming and operation combined with machine failures to cause a considerable loss of time. However it is under just such adverse conditions that the relative ease of programming reruns on Mark IV proves especially valuable. The reliability of the computer has now been greatly improved and at present writing it has been operating with more than 85% good running time during the month of November 1953." On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/MSLDE.htm > > Ken Iverson's Ph.D. thesis. I'll fill in the sections as time and energy > permit. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
