Ancient computers and Earth computers

[thekillman]

well, the ACC is user friendly. why not atlantis?

[ckwongau]

sometime i wonder, about the computer of SGC and Atlantis

if SGC 's computer is connected to Cheyenne Mountain 's main computer or SGC has it's own super powerful computer.It may not be as advance as Atlantis main computer.
But Cheyenne Mountain should have the most advance computer on Earth, in pop culture it is where they put the "Skynet" and that super computer from the "Wargame"

[morrismike]

I would imagine windows vista has the capability to dumb down the most sophisticated computers ever known. It sure does wonders for my laptop.

[Girlbot]

But Cheyenne Mountain should have the most advance computer on Earth, in pop culture it is where they put that super computer from the "Wargame"

W.O.P.R, loved that movie. The remake they're doing doesn't look like a winner though.

[QuantumDragon]

the sequal was decent if a bit lacking on originality but that's a bit off topic

IMHO the computers in atlantis were plug and play b/c they were designed that way
since we first learned about atlantis we have had access to ancient computers at least the ones they left behind in the outpost so we would have had at least an intro to their systems so going to the "City of the Ancients" wouldn't it make sense to program our computers to be compatible with theirs?

[Lt. Col. Mcoy]

This is easy. We already knew ("The Fifth Race") that the Alterans used base 8 (octal) math, so we created adapters for computers based on it. . .just like the one McKay had in "Lifeline". In fact, the problem that they had with it could very well have been that the Asurans no longer used octal math!

Here's some stuff on wikipedia on the subject (though in general, Wikipedia is not considered a reliable source):

In fiction

. . .

* The Alterans from Stargate SG-1 used octal, even though they had ten fingers. It's possible that they counted the gaps between each finger, ignored the thumb on each hand, or used the thumb as a base-2 counter (as on an abacus) allowing them to count up to 30 (24 in decimal) on their hands.

. . .

In computers

Octal is sometimes used in computing instead of hexadecimal, perhaps most often in modern times in conjunction with file permissions under Unix systems (see chmod). It has the advantage of not requiring any extra symbols as digits (the hexadecimal system is base-16 and therefore needs six additional symbols beyond 0–9). It is also used for digital displays.

At the time when octal originally became widely used in computing, systems such as the IBM mainframes employed 24-bit (or 36-bit) words. Octal was an ideal abbreviation of binary for these machines because eight (or twelve) digits could concisely display an entire machine word (each octal digit covering three binary digits). It also cut costs by allowing Nixie tubes, seven-segment displays, and calculators to be used for the operator consoles; where binary displays were too complex to use, decimal displays needed complex hardware to convert radixes, and hexadecimal displays needed to display letters.

All modern computing platforms, however, use 16-, 32-, or 64-bit words, with eight bits making up a byte. On such systems three octal digits would be required, with the most significant octal digit inelegantly representing only two binary digits (and in a series the same octal digit would represent one binary digit from the next byte). Hence hexadecimal is more commonly used in programming languages today, since a hexadecimal digit covers four binary digits and all modern computing platforms have machine words that are evenly divisible by four. Some platforms with a power-of-two word size still have instruction subwords that are more easily understood if displayed in octal; this includes the PDP-11. The modern-day ubiquitous x86 architecture belongs to this category as well, but octal is almost never used on this platform.

The prefix or suffix customarily used to represent an octal number is "o" (i.e. o73), as binary and hexadecimal are represented by 'b' and 'h' or 'x' respectively, although 'q' is also seen as a way to make it more visually distinct from zero.

(emphasis mine)

[DaCk]

Or the computer is advanced enough to recognize what the "language" the earth computer is using and translates accordingly for it.

[beale947]

I thought that the laptops and tablets had a built in translation program which translates the ancient into english.

Worked on the daedalus when he translated the virus code into wraith.

[wkw427]

Ancient comps are Macs, so they can interact with ours easialy

[Buba uognarf]

well, the ACC is user friendly. why not atlantis?

Atlantis is user friendly. Or are you agreeing and asking a rhetorical question.

[thekillman]

i meant like, the asgard computercore was made to be user friendly. it would fit the ancients to thing its invincible, and thus made it very user friendly. cause so far, we're the only race with passwords. the control pedestals were cool, and difficult to use, as there were normal people capable of accessing them. atlantis was a little island of ancients.

so what im saying is, our computers can interface with atlantis easily, cause they were made to be so. would we make it hard to use our cities? when there are no criminals, and only we can use it?

besides, our laptops in atlantis are much more advanced than the today ones, expect the minimum to be terabytes, while asgard have like, googlion bytes[and the ancients aswell]. crystal tech allows much better computers. we can accurately calculate difficult things really fast. in RL, we'd need a massive computer grid and weeks. so multi terabyte computers. which makes them less "inferior"

[velmate]

i meant like, the asgard computercore was made to be user friendly. it would fit the ancients to thing its invincible, and thus made it very user friendly. cause so far, we're the only race with passwords. the control pedestals were cool, and difficult to use, as there were normal people capable of accessing them. atlantis was a little island of ancients.

Ascard core user friendly, because they trusted to us. We are 5th race. but Ancients cant trust anyone, especially in pegasus galaxy. Because primitive races can destroy themselves with Ancient tech. Example Dakara weapon. Remember, how jaffas use this weapon against Ori ? They didnt know capability of this weapon. so, Ori destroyed them and weapon.

if Ancients could put "gene" barrier for primitive races, why they don't put other barriers for their computers?

[thekillman]

ATA gene was their ultimate password

[Lt. Col. Mcoy]

But actually I think they have mentioned encrypted parts of the Database. Plus the keystones like in "Harmony".