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  • vacuum tube --> transistor --> IC --> microprocessor --> multiprocessor
  • separate business/scientific processors --> common universal processors
  • large slow power hungry heat emitting --> small fast efficient cool
  • small expensive memories --> large cheap memories
  • complex instruction set computers (human/small memory) --> reduced instruction set computers (optimizing compiler/large memory)
  • who knows where electronic computers will go from here, we aren't at the end yet
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