Password and smartphone: what they have in common
- Step 1. Password — evolved from — Time-sharing. They appeared in CTSS to separate users.
- Step 2. Time-sharing — uses — Mainframe. Multi-user mainframes.
- Step 3. Mainframe — has part — Magnetic-core memory. Magnetic-core memory.
- Step 4. Magnetic-core memory — evolved into — RAM. DRAM displaced core memory.
- Step 5. RAM — is part of — Smartphone. RAM.