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Originally Posted by morriss003
Computer (chips) are like automobiles (or perhaps the internal combustion engine). The invention transforms everything. If you consider the auto to have been invented c.1890, then it has been about a hundred twenty two years since that invention, and there have been quite a few upgrades, not to mention the various kinds and types of motor vehicles. If you consider the personal computer (with the 8008 chip) to have been invented about 1975, then it has only been 37 years since that invention. We are in the late infancy of the personal computer (chip), and there should be a lot of upgrades coming, many of which we cannot even predict at this time.
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And today's PCs have more computing power than a 1970s vintage super computer.