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Sunday, November 9, 2014

There’s No Such Thing as a General-purpose Processor

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2687011

There’s no such thing as a General-purpose processor, and belief in such a device is harmful.

posted by Graham at 14:54

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There’s No Such Thing as a General-purpose Processor

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