Hardware goes soft.
Presents information on the use of "specialist chips" in computer systems. Information that specialist chips are designed to do their particular jobs extremely fast, but they are inflexible in comparison with a microprocessor which does its best to be jack-of-all-trades; Report that the first-ever h...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 351; no. 8120; pp. 89 - 91 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
5/22/1999
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