A forecast of the future of computation

✍ Scribed by Carl Hammer

• Book ID: 103898737
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 886 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7206
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7206(77)90003-9

✦ Synopsis

Forecast of the Future of Computation1 I-hnmer &cent hardware advances reduce to WIE common danominator: The "Miracle" of the Chip. Large-scale integration continues its astounding progress and commercially available densities of only two years ago are already obsolete; the 100 K chip is said to be on several drawing boards. Future system architectures will exhibit increasing parallelism and madub ity. An avalanche of new 'bard-wired" components will include hierarchical and associative memories, pipeline and array processors; data security will be provided through cryg tographic hardware. Finally, computer networks will eclipse the meteoric rise of their time-sharing ancestors as microprocessors rake eve: the burdens of protocols and network operating systems.