Talk:Computer for operations with functions

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This file is a candidate for speedy deletion

I - author of the article, of which copied the picture. Article is open access. What else is needed to confirm the rights? Thank. --Solikkh (talk) 15:40, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

if talking about the article, it really is not a candidate for deletion. the book alone is a vital obscure and historic piece of Computing history, that must have been well-known in Russia but completely unknown to the rest of the world. or was there a different meaning to the word "file"? Lkcl (talk) 13:08, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is this not just SIMD?

I cannot really make head or tails of the main section, but it appears this design was intended to apply the same function to an array of data. This is essentially the SIMD (or MIMD) approach. I suspect this is simply a Russian name for the same design, and as such, should not have its own article. Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:11, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ohh it is most definitely not SIMD. firstly it is Vector Processing (see the article on the same) but it appears to have Hardware-level support for Higher Order Functions (!!) as best I can tell. additionally I know of absolutely no processor - and I have studied dozens - which has hardware support for differentiation and other such functions. this historic design is revolutionary. as a historic design it is worth its own page in its own right. Lkcl (talk) 13:06, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

i don't like doing this but hhave enough understanding of chatgpt's limitations to know that it can reasonably faithfully "transliterate" and also summarise. https://chatgpt.com/share/68791d85-99ac-800b-be90-40d9565243ad and the results are genuinely useful. first immediate fact: the processor was a hybrid analog-digital computer. there exists no SIMD machine today that processes analog data. i am astounded delighted and impressed: this machine was really really special and historic. Lkcl (talk) 16:00, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]