On 17-01-24 03:14 AM, Roddy Scott wrote:
Processor chips
may have gotten a little bit bigger but not by much but could you
imagine the size of a computer based on the ENIAC
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC> technology and the power
requirements? The original consumed 150KW and weighed about 30 tons, a
modern day version would need its own power station and would take up a
football stadium

Ah but you are forgetting as Admiral Hopper liked to point out, the size of a nanosecond. A football stadium sized computer could not get out of it's own way.

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