Computing devices ahead of their time

These days, processor speed is measured in gigahertz and RAM in gigabytes. Today's computers are a thousand times faster than those that began to appear in homes decades ago. It is easy to see that the computing process has recently advanced far ahead and began to acquire an industrial scale. But, perhaps, in fact, we have not gone as far as we think?





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