ixbt, Felid, 21.07.2009 05:28:
By the way, the first mention of the conveyor computing scheme was in the Russian army of the 19th century: it was necessary to recalculate the ballistic tables for artillery (the peak of applied mathematics at the time - also the WPC), put 2 companies of soldiers, each took arguments from the previous one, did their operation over them and passed on. At the output of 2 results in the mouth was verified: if they coincide - correct