Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Moore's Law: From this to that with an ENIAC

The ENIAC is considered the first general purpose, programmable, Turing-complete computer.  It was, quite literally, the size of a room:

For the machine's 50th anniversary, folks at the University of Pennsylvania implemented the entire machine on a single chip:

This chip is on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

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