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burgerbrain on April 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The First Plastic Computer Processor

From the image caption: "It is puny compared to most silicon processors"

(The image appears to be an 8-bit ALU, larger than a man's thumb)

I'm not sure they're using the word "puny" correctly...

algolicious on April 11, 2011 [–]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puny "slight or inferior in power, size, or importance"

In this case, they meant power, as in computational power.

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