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Dec 3, 2019

OK SO let's say it's 1962 and you're lucky enough to be a programmer working somewhere that has an IBM 7090. This is a top of the line transistorized revision of the IBM 709, capable of 100,000 floating point operations per second. But how do you code for it?

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The 60's / 70's were an amazing time period for computer science. So many algos were being invented at the time. The laptop I'm using to make this tweet is probably a million times faster than that old IBM. Plus 64 GB of RAM would have probably filled an entire state.

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