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"Only"—in 1964! It was another 17 years before the IBM PC was released with a 4.77MHz 8088. Imagine a gap like that today: The collapse of the lag between "fast

"Only"—in 1964! It was another 17 years before the IBM PC was released with a 4.77MHz 8088. Imagine a gap like that today: The collapse of the lag between "fastest CPU available at any price" and "the CPU in your phone" is basically the story of the computing industry to date.

xkriva11 5y ago
That sands for microprocessors. Minicomputers had usually bigger rates. Xerox Alto was, for example, 5.88 MHz in 1973.