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In the film "Triumph of the Nerds", Bob Cringley walked through a room with a mainframe computer (timestamp 9:24). How is it that computers have become so much smaller, faster, and cheaper?
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With the technology of producing processors becoming more advanced, and transistors becoming much smaller over time with design developments, computers have become much smaller. Current processors today contain hundreds of millions to billions of ...
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