"Old Computers Couldn't Compute It"
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Speed separates old general-purpose computers from new ones; computability does not — a problem computable today was computable on the earliest machines, given absurd amounts of time.
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A phone and a room-sized vacuum-tube computer reach the same answers at wildly different speeds.
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"Faster" never became "able to compute new kinds of things."
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