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Subject: Simulation eating mips
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 04:01:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 04:01:11 1987
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Summary: So we take the big evolutionary step?

> Enuff on how graphics will chew MIPS. It will, but not like SIMULATION !
> A revolution is occurring today in engineering, where more and more
> computers, chemicals, parts and systems are thoroughly SIMULATED before
> even a first prototype is built...

If you don't get too serious about it, the philosophical implications are
striking...

At the point that we are using our fastest computers to design new
computers, we have reached the point that the computers are self-repro-
ducing--in fact, self-evolving.  We exist in some bizarre symbiotic
relationship with them, but it's the computers that are reproducing now
with our help.  And, of course, adding AI to the CAD work and robotics to
the assembly process only carries it further!  Too trite for good sci-fi
material, but reality is sometimes like that.
-- 
Dick Dunn    {hao,nbires,cbosgd}!ico!rcd  (NOT CSNET!)   (303)449-2870
   ...I'm not cynical - just experienced.