"If the automobile and airplane business had developed like the computer business, a Rolls Royce would cost $2.75 and would run for 3 million miles on one gallon of gas. And a Boeing 767 would cost just $500 and would circle the globe in 20 minutes on five gallons of gas." Tom Forester's comparison
Inventions that built the information technology revolution
β Scribed by McCarney, Rhys, author
- Publisher
- [United States] : Lulu Publishing Services
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
182 pages : 23 cm
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