Computer science is one of the fastest growing career fields in modern
history. Dating back only a few decades to the late 1950s and early 1960s, it
has become one of the leading industries in the world today. Developed
through the technological architecture of electrical engineering and the
computational language of mathematics, the science of computer technology
has provided considerable recognition and financial gain for many of its well
deserving pioneers. Originally conceived as an organizational solution to the
massive amounts of information kept on nothing more than paper, computers
have evolved and advanced to become a common part of modern day life. In
the early days of the computers age, the newest and most complex
computers took up no less than an entire building or very large room. It was
inconceivable that these machines would after only about fifty years be
many times more powerful and small enough to be held with tweezers
With the introduction of miniature circuitry and transistors, the days of
vacuum tubes and computers that filled entire buildings are long gone and
the centerpiece of the today's computer industry is the CPU, one of the
modern marvels of science and technology. It is essentially the brain of the
computer and though it is the main determining factor in the processing
power of the computer as a whole, many other parts of the machine are just
as important in overall performance. Many people don't know this and that
is how computer corporations have cheated people out of their money for so
many years by selling them cheap systems with high megahertz numbers for
the processors in them. This is one reason for the success of the computer
industry. When people find out that they have been cheated, they will try to
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