Well you probably seen them in simCity, but didn't know where the term came from. In the 60's Paolo Soleri pioneered the concept of a pedestrian based car free city call an arcology. He released a book called City in the Image Of Man detailing a number of his designs. More information can be had at www.arcosanti.org.
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In a Cobol program no less. The program was to calulate sentance length for inmates in a correctional system.
*** If YOURE DEAD YOUR DONE
*** CHECK FOR DEAD FIRST
I guess this fixed a bug where if and inmate died in custody they continued to have their sentance calculated each day.
These things have happened before and always have been attributed to human error. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made.
Those of us with the right kind of radios have known about In for quite some time.
Real inovation took place in 8k.
Well you probably seen them in simCity, but didn't know where the term came from. In the 60's Paolo Soleri pioneered the concept of a pedestrian based car free city call an arcology. He released a book called City in the Image Of Man detailing a number of his designs. More information can be had at www.arcosanti.org. Cheers!