Though the initial announcement had been made a while back, activities never got off the ground. We made the inaugural function yesterday, finally! The we see it it should act as a co-curricular program for the CSE and IT departments of the Mallabhum Institute of Technology. This is the club where we shall meet and discuss these dinky little wonderful things made of silicon. The processors that come on silicon today is far more powerful than when they actually first came about! We had a discussion about the very first commercial processor on a silicon chip. The Intel 4004 !
Though it looks ridiculously simplistic today, it had all the characteristics of the much more powerful processors of today, much like a human baby has all the limbs and organs of a grown man yet in a very small scale. A 4 bit processor! That's a laugh! But, it could actually function as a general purpose processor.
Like many other inventions the full potential of the creation was not realized by anyone, it was launched as another option to designing electronic systems. But it's potential was realized by the time the processor family evolved to the 8088 and became the engine for the IBM PC and the clone brigade! Did anyone really think it'll become what it eventually became! A piece of equipment we cannot live without and that spawned the notebook avatar. Many people will swear that a laptop is simply an extension of their limbs!
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