(1)At the beggining of 1995 there were 24 million users on the Internet, of those 17 million were based in America. The Internet has doubled in size each year since it was invented in 1988.
(2)The fastest computer in 1993, the CM-5, could perform 131 billion operations per second. With a pocket calculator this number of operations would take 41 000 years.
(3)IBM employs 220 000 people.
(4)Microsoft employs 16 140 people.
(5)Computer performance increased by about a factor of a million between 1950 and 1990.
(2)The fastest computer in 1993, the CM-5, could perform 131 billion operations per second. With a pocket calculator this number of operations would take 41 000 years.
(3)IBM employs 220 000 people.
(4)Microsoft employs 16 140 people.
(5)Computer performance increased by about a factor of a million between 1950 and 1990.
(6)Modern Microprocessors contain as many as 10 million transisters.
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