"computing as in the computers we use today" - Herotolinussiance. circa 2000.48bc

The fuck can't we stay with analog computing? Doing maths and such. Instead we gotta edit these config files in these stupid "monolithic" distros therefore leads to time wasted on these 10009999gigillion tiny semiconductors that zgod knows what normie humans can know beyond.

>>11368
>like, if you wanted to crunch numbers for rocket science in 1960s, you had to move the weights or whatever
>so much slower but also so much more... you could feel the equations.
By the 1960s, digital computing was sufficiently advanced for there to be formal standards for high-level languages. Digital computers had a high presence in the military from which NASA was borne, in similar time proximity to ARPA, the one which created ARPAnet, which was already dealing with the problems of computer networks. In any case, NASA was most likely using digital computation from the very beginning, though not exclusively.
How can you speak about "the maths being alive" and "feeling the equations". You've probably never picked up a slide rule yourself, nor own a book of tables. Your sentiment is so out of place it's absurd, you talk like rocketry in the 1960s was a damn hippie commune, when they were actually military research branches working on how to best display missile tech superiority. They would have been rigid, process-oriented, bureaucratic, dry, but hey, while you work on making intercontinental ranges possible, you get that warm fuzzy feeling of making some numbers change.