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Bell's law for the birth and death of computer classes

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A theory of the computer's evolution.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 51, Issue 1
50th anniversary issue: 1958 - 2008
January 2008
106 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1327452
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