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Great Moments in Microprocessor History

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-ain't-no-abacus dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The microprocessor changed the world: how did we get from the first 4-bit models in the 1970s to today's 64-bit multicore monsters? This article covers the history of the micro from the vacuum tube to today's dual-core multithreaded madnes."

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  1. AMD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I notice the article fails to mention that AMD chips are made in 3rd world sweatshops

  2. Frosty piss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frosty piss

  3. Biological cpus? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FEED THEM!

  4. YOU FABIL IT!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WeRe taken over

  5. ofp homo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it has to be fun marketing surve7s I ever did. It everyday...We bunch of retarded

  6. )Dol7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. Fuck yer Whopping! by Universal+Indicator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Though I like computer history as much as anyone, the thing that annoys me the most is how people that write this stuff can't resist using the word "whopping" for EVERYTHING!!! Even if whatever it is you are reviewing was "whopping" at the time, it isn't now.

    By the same token, I would not refer to a desktop computer with 4 gigs of RAM as a "whopping" amount either, because in a few years it will be common.

    I move that we ban the word "whopping"!!