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Foil 8 Evolution of basic High Performance Computing and Communications Technology
From Implications of NII for Kids Jamesville-Dewitt School Districy Science Week -- April 25,1995. byGeoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Both are rapidly involving due to advances in chip and optical technologies
Communication advances will give us the National Information Infrastructure (NII)
Computing Technology Advances will give us:
Continuing processing unit performance increases:
(8088 to Pentium to Another factor of 1.5 each year).
This will be needed to manipulate real-time video
New Interfaces such as real-time video
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