The Trillion Fold Increase In Computing Power, Visualized

Gizmodo ^ | May 24, 2015 | Maddie Stone

[EEGator]

We still use FORTRAN for some engineering classes.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

We still use FORTRAN for some engineering classes.

Circa 1960, I took two computer courses - one required, the other an elective. The elective was FORTRAN. The required course? Analog computation. Which, truth to tell, turned out to be of use in my career.

A trillion-fold increase in the cost-effectiveness of digital computers later, of course, analog is now less useful.

[Terry L Smith]

Thank you .... Chuckles.