Development of Computers and Technology
Computers in some form are in almost everything these days. From
Toasters to Televisions, just about all electronic things has some form of
processor in them. This is a very large change from the way it used to be, when
a computer that would take up an entire room and weighed tons of pounds has the
same amount of power as a scientific calculator. The changes that computers
have undergone in the last 40 years have been colossal. So many things have
changed from the ENIAC that had very little power, and broke down once every 15
minutes and took another 15 minutes to repair, to our Pentium Pro 200's, and the
powerful Silicon Graphics Workstations, the core of the machine has stayed
basically the same. The only thing that has really changed in the processor is
the speed that it translates commands from 1's and 0's to data that actually
means something to a normal computer user. Just in the last few years,
computers have undergone major......
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