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Quote: the old conception of computation treated wires as idealized, instantaneous connections

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digital communication
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Petri net
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massively parallel processors

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Fundamental to our old conception of computation was … You put in data at one end and … [p. 139] Lately, we have become less enamored of … our costs are in wires, most of our … of the wire to the other. … (There are also similar problems with memory locations, …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: in computers, wires are much of the cost, space and delay times

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