The architecture of a new class of computers, optimized for lattice QCD calculations, is described.
Wayan Vota, founder of OLPCNews.com, an independent website that follows the project, calls the XO a "harbinger of an entirely new class of computers".Technology Quarterly Watching while you surf Stop that car!
The $1,200 device, with a 12-inch liquid-crystal-display touchscreen, is the first of a class of computers that enable musicians to store music and edit it onscreen.
Bell, mindful of Bush's piece — and drawing on his own "Law of Computer Classes," which he wrote in 1972, and which predicted that a new class of computers would emerge roughly every ten years — realized that by 2007 the capacities of disk drives would likely be such (and they are) that even someone trying hard to fill one up would not be able to.
Bell, mindful of Bush's piece and drawing on his own "Law of Computer Classes," which he wrote in 1972, and which predicted that a new class of computers would emerge roughly every ten years realized that by 2007 the capacities of disk drives would likely be such (and they are) that even someone trying hard to fill one up would not be able to.
Sounds like a throwback to an earlier age when television commercials hawked space-age-design electric ranges and bullet-nosed vacuum cleaners, but the phrase is resurfacing to describe a new class of computers called Internet appliances that are so, well, sleek, simple and easy to use that they barely seem to qualify as computers.
