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Hindsight: Reversible Computing

Posted by Hemos on from the step-back-into-the-past dept.

One of the more interesting tech pieces that came out this week has been Hindsight [PDF]. Hindsight is made by Virtutech and is billed as the "the first complete, general-purpose tool for reverse execution and debugging of arbitrary electronic systems." The demos were received extremely well and it just looks cool.

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  1. Microsloth by TimeTraveler1884 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...running the code [ass] backwards...
    Funny, the way Windows runs sometimes, I thought this was Microsoft's idea.

    1. Re:Microsloth by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I think you can say their choice of path separator character was an
      a:\rguably
      b:\ad
      c:\all

      --
      Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. My thesis by Urusai · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that I'm currently (in theory) working on is about inverting Turing machines...now this comes out. Creepy. Time to change the tinfoil.