Amdahl's law

Amdahl's law definition - computer

"Overall system speed is governed by the slowest component." By Gene Amdahl, chief architect of IBM's first mainframe series and founder of Amdahl Corporation and other companies. Amdahl's law applied to networking. The slowest device in the network will determine the maximum speed of the network. See laws.



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