<div class="gmail_quote">On 16 November 2010 18:41, Richard Loosemore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpwl@lightlink.com">rpwl@lightlink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
In my case, I have done such estimates in the past, and the required HARDWARE capacity comes out at roughly the hardware capacity of a late 1980s-era supercomputer....</blockquote><div> <br>Mmhhh, I believe that the question, unless some target level of performance is specified, is meaningless.<br>
<br>I suspect that any universal computing device, including a cellular automaton or a mechanical Babbage difference engine (or perhaps even a Chinese room!), would do just fine.<br><br>-- <br></div></div>Stefano Vaj<br>