There's been many improvements in flight. How about vectored thrust for starters? The maneuverability of a modern jet fighter is wasn't even dreamed of in the 70's. Another thing is RAM jets and SCRAM jets. These are new types of engines that are in developement that weren't around in the 70's. Another new invention would be planes that can fly themselves. I don't have a link, but I do remember a completely computer controlled flight from Australia to USA sometime recently. Even most modern commerical planes have the ability to land themselves.
How about setting up cygwin under Windows? A quick trip to www.cygwin.com and you can be programming away within minutes. Also, you wouldn't be limited to just BASIC. Just about any language you could think of is at your disposal with a cygwin setup.
In fact it can and has been done. There is a course at the university that I got my degree from that does exactly this. The homepage for the course is CPSC 509
The person who teaches this course is retiring (which has has been saying for about 3 years now). He in fact has spent his entire life doing this research. He has many originaly copies of notes and manuscripts from research projects. Any course on history of computing should be modelled on this one.
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There's been many improvements in flight. How about vectored thrust for starters? The maneuverability of a modern jet fighter is wasn't even dreamed of in the 70's. Another thing is RAM jets and SCRAM jets. These are new types of engines that are in developement that weren't around in the 70's. Another new invention would be planes that can fly themselves. I don't have a link, but I do remember a completely computer controlled flight from Australia to USA sometime recently. Even most modern commerical planes have the ability to land themselves.
How about setting up cygwin under Windows? A quick trip to www.cygwin.com and you can be programming away within minutes. Also, you wouldn't be limited to just BASIC. Just about any language you could think of is at your disposal with a cygwin setup.
In fact it can and has been done. There is a course at the university that I got my degree from that does exactly this. The homepage for the course is CPSC 509 The person who teaches this course is retiring (which has has been saying for about 3 years now). He in fact has spent his entire life doing this research. He has many originaly copies of notes and manuscripts from research projects. Any course on history of computing should be modelled on this one.