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In computing, computer performance is the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system. Outside of specific contexts, computer performance is estimated in terms of accuracy, efficiency and speed of executing computer program instructions. When it comes to high computer performance, one or more of the following factors might be involved:
Gates's law ("The speed of software halves every 18 months" [9]) is an anonymously coined variant on Wirth's law, its name referencing Bill Gates, [9] co-founder of Microsoft. It is an observation that the speed of commercial software generally slows by 50% every 18 months, thereby negating all the benefits of Moore's law .
Technological determinism is a reductionist theory in assuming that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency, while determining the development of the social structure and cultural values. [1]
The "brain" [computer] may one day come down to our level [of the common people] and help with our income-tax and book-keeping calculations. But this is speculation and there is no sign of it so far. — British newspaper The Star in a June 1949 news article about the EDSAC computer, long before the era of the personal computers.
Many people built or assembled their own computers as per published designs. For example, many thousands of people built the Galaksija home computer later in the early 1980s. The Altair was influential. It came before Apple Computer, as well as Microsoft which produced and sold the Altair BASIC programming language interpreter, Microsoft's ...
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1.8×10 1: ENIAC, first programmable electronic digital computer, 1945 [2] 5×10 1: upper end of serialized human perception computation (light bulbs do not flicker to the human observer) 7×10 1: Whirlwind I 1951 vacuum tube computer and IBM 1620 1959 transistorized scientific minicomputer [2]