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curious lump
Sep 13, 2014

by zen death robot

jony ive aces posted:

have you not heard of game developers

I wouldn't call what game developers are doing 'entertainment'

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ANIME MONSTROSITY
Jun 1, 2012

by XyloJW
never buy a 1st gen anything

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

im the rocket-powered goalposts in this thread (itt for short)

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Jonny 290 posted:

i don't think you fully understand what it's like when the term "one hour average uptime" is involved

relative to that, no. modern computesr do not have to worry about hardware failure

nice serious argument you got here


mother fucker is defending eniac yo

in a computer book i had as a kid eniac was a robot with arms. and computed. that poo poo owns

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
have we worked out the technology required to make eniac 2 yet

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe
just do it the same as eniac, but with transistors instead of vacuum tubes. a million loving transistors.

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
just implement it in a very small corner of a modern FPGA

curious lump
Sep 13, 2014

by zen death robot

echinopsis posted:

have we worked out the technology required to make eniac 2 yet

We can rebuild it... we have the technology.

Time to put it to use for good and not evil

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

echinopsis posted:

have we worked out the technology required to make eniac 2 yet

we have to make enaic s first

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


echinopsis posted:

have we worked out the technology required to make eniac 2 yet

no

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Doc Block posted:

just do it the same as eniac, but with transistors instead of vacuum tubes. a million loving transistors.

ok, i finished it. where do you want me to send these gunnery tables for WW2 battleships?

what, you wanted something else? then why did you ask for eniac?

curious lump
Sep 13, 2014

by zen death robot

Sagebrush posted:

ok, i finished it. where do you want me to send these gunnery tables for WW2 battleships?

what, you wanted something else? then why did you ask for eniac?

its really nice to see that SOMEONE gets i -__-

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

jony ive aces posted:

where did your avatar go
i reported a bug in the kerbal space program thread and ksp sperglords got mad and changed my avatar

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

games: not even once

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curious lump
Sep 13, 2014

by zen death robot

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

games: not even once

if all computers were eniac this would NOT be a problem.

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