“Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.”
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 84
“The first characteristic of interest is the fraction of the computational load which is associated with data management housekeeping. This fraction has been very nearly constant for about ten years, and accounts for 40% of the executed instructions in production runs.”
Source: Validity of the single processor approach... (1967), p. 483
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