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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. And now a great moment in Slashdot history... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GNAA gets an FP, yet again!

    Propz to GNAA!

  2. Good article... by quamaretto · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...Especially the repeated use of "Faggin". Say it with me.

    Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin. Faggin.

    Anyway... A couple of things:

    • No coverage of Transmeta. Fair enough.
    • No mention of quantum computing. Fair enough.
    • No mention of TRON VLSI. Fine by me.
    • No diagrams or illustrations. Bad Thing. Too Much Text.
    This concludes Quam's nitpick for the day.
    --
    *is run over by rotten tomatoes*
  3. Re:Performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Interesting"???? You mods are smoking crack again. Can't you see this is an incest story downloaded from the alt.porn.children Usenet newsgroup? And that the pervert has written or copied a simple Perl script (one that even the fat fucking Perl Monks can handle) to find and replace nouns, verbs, and adverbs to get it past /. censors.

    Man you Homos and CmdrTick-Oh fuckwad wannabes are stupid.

  4. Re:Intel Generations? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You got it completely messed up. What you write does not make sense. How would you explain the success of the Pentium III (which was an i786)?

  5. in7ormative CUMCUM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There'5 no Correct ne[twork