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Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems

One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here What do the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer and greeting cards that play musical jingles have in common?

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One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here What do the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer and greeting cards that play musical jingles have in common? DARPA cites both of them as the inspiration for a project seeking low-resource computing paradigms to be used on future battlefields.

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