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I had a similar thought. I think if modern computing arose in China, technological progress would have been slower by a decade or so, simply because you need 16
by yen223 12y ago
I had a similar thought. I think if modern computing arose in China, technological progress would have been slower by a decade or so, simply because you need 16-bit computing before you can do any reasonable Chinese word processing.
After all, the printing press was invented in China, but it went nowhere there.
- satuon 12y agoI've read that in China they didn't have typewriters and everything was hand-written right up till they got computers. Edit: They had printing presses, but those are for newspapers etc. Ordinary people had to handwrite.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoChina did have typewriters, but the sheer number of keys made them impractical. The first practical ones came after the invention of dot matriz printing.