27th March 2011, 5:43 PM
Again I'm not talking about making the system smaller. I'm talking about shrinking the internal components to reduce power consumption.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)