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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 3681409" data-attributes="member: 172">I've always considered that take terribly naive. What you think of a computer probably has little correlation to what would be required of computing systems on a ship.In my day job, I work on a specialized system that goes on sea ships has less computing power than the PC you are probably working on right now if your system was made in the last 3 years. But it has numerous specialized peripheral boards to interpret data and interface with other system which make it quite a bit bigger than my laptop or desktop. I suspect that a starship computer would be composed of numerous such specialized systems, many of which cannot be reasonably combined or subjected to Moore's law. If you think you can run a starship with your cell phone, I suspect you have another thing coming.</blockquote>