The History of the CPU
Date Submitted: 02/25/2003 22:03:51
Category: / Science & Technology / Computers and Cybernetics
Length: 11 pages (3052 words)
Category: / Science & Technology / Computers and Cybernetics
Length: 11 pages (3052 words)
While it could be argued that the development of the CPU has it's roots as far
back as 1617 with the creation of Napier's Bones, Blaise Pascal's digital adding machine
in 1642, or Charles Babbage's Difference Engine and Analytical Engine in the early
1820s - 1830s, the patent of the vacuum tube by Lee De Forest in 1906 was the actual
starting point for John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry's first electronic computer in 1937,
incorporating the binary system still …
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…it seems Gordon Moore was right about the growth in the speed of
the CPU & now with 64-bit processors & new software programs to run them, I'm sure
we are only at the beginning of what is likely to be an ever-expanding demand for the
new technology.
I found this information at 3 different sites: www.Intel.com,
www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/, and www.geocities.com/cfleri/history.html,
www.pcmech.com/show/processors/35/1.
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