Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

Subject: Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!
From: BluPhoenyx <bluphoenyx@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:48:46 GMT
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heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:


OTOH my personal #1 would've been the on-going progress in
the component field including integration & miniaturisation.


Both quite necessary for growth in processing power of future computers.

Now it's parallelisation - who knows what's next?

Possibly "plasmonics". See Scientific America magazine issue April 2007.Very interesting possibilities there.


Cheers,
Mike T.

References:
- Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!
  - From: "mmphosis" <markstock@mail.com>
- Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!
  - From: heuser.marcus@freenet.de