MLC Board Meeting 45/17/03: - University of Oregon

Contrast this with today’s $1,000 laptop or desktop microcomputer that can do two billion operations per second. A rough calculation indicates that the cost per calculation has gone down by a factor of 10 billion since the early 1950s. Today’s thousand-dollar microcomputer rivals the multimillion-dollar supercomputers of 20 years ago. ................
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