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Mind uploading—transferring an individual's personality to a computer—appears in several works of science fiction. [77] It is distinct from the concept of transferring a consciousness from one human body to another. [78] [79] It is sometimes applied to a single person and other times to an entire society. [80]
A single-board computer (SBC) is a complete computer built on a single circuit board, with microprocessor(s), memory, input/output (I/O) and other features required of a functional computer. Single-board computers are commonly made as demonstration or development systems, for educational systems, or for use as embedded computer controllers .
Computer Performance R; 1938 Germany: Personal research and development Berlin, Germany Konrad Zuse: Z1: 1.00 IPS [1] 1940 Z2: 1.25 IPS [2] 1941 Z3: 20.00 IPS [3] 1944 United Kingdom: Bletchley Park: Tommy Flowers and his team, Post Office Research Station: Colossus: 5.00 kIPS [4] 1945 United States: University of Pennsylvania: Moore School of ...
An all-in-one computer (also called an AIO or all-in-one PC) is a type of personal computer that integrates the computer components, such as the CPU, monitor, and speakers, into a single unit. It occupies a smaller footprint than a desktop computer with a tower form factor , and also uses fewer cables.
LINC computer at the Computer History Museum. The LINC (Laboratory INstrument Computer) is a 12-bit, [1] 2048-word transistorized computer.The LINC is considered by some [2] to be the first minicomputer and a forerunner to the personal computer.
Many people built or assembled their own computers as per published designs. For example, many thousands of people built the Galaksija home computer later in the early 1980s. The Altair was influential. It came before Apple Computer, as well as Microsoft which produced and sold the Altair BASIC programming language interpreter, Microsoft's ...
Perceived performance, in computer engineering, refers to how quickly a software feature appears to perform its task. The concept applies mainly to user acceptance aspects. The amount of time an application takes to start up, or a file to download, is not made faster by showing a startup screen (see Splash screen) or a file progress dialog box.
The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.