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... facts of the case are murky . Atanasoff felt himself vindicated , years after the fact , while Mauchly told Fish- man " I feel I got nothing out of the visit to Atanasoff except the royal shaft later . " The outcome , however , was ...
... facts of the case are murky . Atanasoff felt himself vindicated , years after the fact , while Mauchly told Fish- man " I feel I got nothing out of the visit to Atanasoff except the royal shaft later . " The outcome , however , was ...
Page 63
... fact that its microprocessor worked with sixteen - bit words ( and was thus considerably more powerful than its competitors , which all utilized eight - bit microprocessors ) the PC was no dramatic technological breakthrough . It was ...
... fact that its microprocessor worked with sixteen - bit words ( and was thus considerably more powerful than its competitors , which all utilized eight - bit microprocessors ) the PC was no dramatic technological breakthrough . It was ...
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... fact the greatest drawback of the prototype computer built in the late 1930s by John V. Atanasoff of Iowa State University was that it could solve only one type of problem at a time . To solve another kind of problem , the operator had ...
... fact the greatest drawback of the prototype computer built in the late 1930s by John V. Atanasoff of Iowa State University was that it could solve only one type of problem at a time . To solve another kind of problem , the operator had ...
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