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Re:Intel x86 Documentation Has More Pages Than The 6502 Has ... by kabdib on Saturday August 05, 2023 @01:10PM (#37014172)
An SF book published in the 1950s (I have forgotten title and author, sigh) featured a then-imagined supercomputer with

- 1M bits of storage

- A mile on a side

- Located in Buffalo, NY, and cooled by Niagra Falls (vacuum tubes, natch)

- Able to surveil every citizen in the nation for suspicious activity

No mention of clock speed, cache-line size, or instruction set. I guess SF writers aren't computer designers :-)

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