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Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. This is the biologist’s observation that the fetal development of an individual of a species mimics the evolutionary development of the species itself. In his book The Selfish Gene, Dawkins [Da76] makes the intriguing proposition that human ideas share many of the characteristics of genes, and that ideas themselves might be considered a life form. The two notions together suggest that we listen for an echo of the development of the whole field of computer science in the recent rapid development of the youngest individual in that field: the microcomputer.
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McCreight, E.M. (1988). Microprocessor Features a la Carte. In: Kastens, U., Rammig, F.J. (eds) Architektur und Betrieb von Rechensystemen. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 168. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73451-9_26
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