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Engineering software is specialised software shaped by user needs, computer hardware, and analytic techniques. Typical systems take 2-3 years to create and remain in use 7-10 years. Since major hardware alterations occur at intervals of 4 years, an analysis system must reside on obsolete hardware for half its lifetime. Transportation to different hardware commonly produces less than ideal results. New analysis methods appear at intervals of 10 years, so software is mathematically only half a generation behind. Current packages are particularly sensitive to questions of man-machine communication, which is very hardware-dependent.
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© 1983 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague
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Silvester, P.P. (1983). Hardware-Dependence of Electromagnetics Software. In: Caldwell, J., Bradley, R. (eds) Industrial Electromagnetics Modelling. Developments in Electromagnetic Theory and Applications, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6917-9_16
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