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Expected in the 1980s

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What authors forecast for the 1980s

Good expected the largest computers to be running at a billion pulses each second by around 1980.
I. J. Good · by 1980 · surely · pulses per second will surely have been attained
From Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine, I. J. Good, 1965

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