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A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...
With an operating speed of 1 MHz, the Pilot Model ACE was for some time the fastest computer in the world. [ 52 ] [ 60 ] Turing's design for ACE had much in common with today's RISC architectures and it called for a high-speed memory of roughly the same capacity as an early Macintosh computer, which was enormous by the standards of his day. [ 52 ]
Of the latter figure, 75% were professional or work related, while the rest were sold for personal or home use. About 81.5% of personal computers shipped had been desktop computers, 16.4% laptops and 2.1% servers. The United States had received 38.8% (394 million) of the computers shipped, Europe 25% and 11.7% had gone to the Asia-Pacific ...
For gaming the global market of gaming desktops, laptops, and monitors is expected to grow to 61.1 million shipments by the end of 2023, up from 42.1 million, with desktops growing from 15.1 million shipments to 19 million. [38] PC gaming as a whole accounts for 28% of the total gaming market as of 2017. [39]
A diagram showing how the user interacts with application software on a typical desktop computer.The application software layer interfaces with the operating system, which in turn communicates with the hardware.
Data General Nova, serial number 1, on display at the Computer History Museum. A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a type of general-purpose computer mostly developed from the mid-1960s, [1] [2] built significantly smaller and sold at a much lower price than mainframe [3] and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors.
A computer program is a sequence or set [a] of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute.It is one component of software, which also includes documentation and other intangible components.
This is a list of films produced by the Indian Hindi-language film industry, popularly known as Bollywood, based in Mumbai, ordered by year and decade of release. Although "Bollywood" films are generally listed under the Hindi language, most are in Hindustani and in Hindi with partial Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Urdu and occasionally other languages ...