No wonder we wanted a wall between the developers and the sysadmins, particularly since, in theory, the advent of the personal computer and desktop workstation meant that we could all be responsible for our own machines.

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The user has nothing to install, and the use of the USB key provides the mobility and convenience of carrying a personal desktop and files that can be used on any computer.

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The report, from Gartner, sees tablets becoming the dominant form of personal computer (after mobile phones) in the next few years at the expense of traditional desktop PCs, even as total numbers of new users are on the upswing.

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At the heart of the personal genome machine is a silicon chip with 21 million transistors on it--the equivalent of a desktop computer circa 1995.

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