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post-transistor

adj

Etymology

From post- + transistor.

  1. derived from resisto
  2. derived from resistre
  3. derived from resister
  4. inherited from resisten
  5. formed as resistor — “resist + -or”
  6. compounded as transistor — “transfer + resistor”
  7. prefixed as post-transistor — “post + transistor”

Definitions

  1. belonging to the time (late 1960s) after individual transistors were replaced by…

    belonging to the time (late 1960s) after individual transistors were replaced by integrated circuits

    • during the genesis of solid-state electronics and the post-transistor era of integrated circuits for telecommunications, computers, and digital signal machines
    • the International Business Machines 360 series, which emerged in the late nineteen‐sixties as a major post-transistor family of general purpose computers.

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