With the mainframe, you had to guess at an angle of view and then wait, sometimes minutes, for the geometry to be replotted. For a given model, the system may be five times or more faster. However, we were running smaller models back then. As the tools got better, we built more complex models. Some of the things we're analyzing now weren't possible in the past.
Visualization is better.
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