State-of-the-art - When Referring To Hardware: About Five Years Behind The Best Research Labs.

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State-of-the-art - When referring to hardware: about five years behind the
best research labs. When referring to software: about ten years behind the
best research labs. For example, The Unix system is a state-of-the-art
operating system written in 1969.

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