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Portable computers are also called a "transportable" or a "luggable" PC. A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a small, usually pocket-sized, computer with limited functionality. It is intended to supplement and to synchronize with a desktop computer, giving access to contacts, address book, notes, e-mail, and other features. A Palm TX PDA
An ultra-mobile PC, [1] or ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), is a miniature version of a pen computer, a class of laptop whose specifications were launched by Microsoft and Intel in Spring 2006. Sony had already made a first attempt in this direction in 2004 with its Vaio U series , which was only sold in Asia.
The Raspberry Pi (Model 2B shown) is a low-cost single-board computer often used to teach computer science. [1]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.
Performance engineering within systems engineering encompasses the set of roles, skills, activities, practices, tools, and deliverables applied at every phase of the systems development life cycle which ensures that a solution will be designed, implemented, and operationally supported to meet the performance requirements defined for the solution.
Two, 16 bit MCA slots (top and middle). At the bottom is an MCA slot for an IBM 8514 card.. Micro Channel architecture, or the Micro Channel bus, is a proprietary 16-or 32-bit parallel computer bus publicly introduced by IBM in 1987 which was used on PS/2 and other computers until the mid-1990s.
Companies that make super I/O controllers include Nuvoton (spun off from Winbond), [2] ITE Inc. , [2] [4] Fintek Inc. , [7] ENE Tech. (for laptop) and Microchip Technology (which bought SMSC™). National Semiconductor used to make super I/O controllers but sold that business to Winbond at 2005, which already had a competing super I/O ...
For use with a shorter keyboard or laptop which omits the numberpad Bluetooth numeric keypad, working also as calculator. A numeric keypad, number pad, numpad, or ten key, [1] [2] [3] is the palm-sized, usually-17-key section of a standard computer keyboard, usually on the far right. It provides calculator-style efficiency for entering numbers.
IBM PC compatible "clones" became commonplace, and the terms "personal computer", and especially "PC", stuck with the general public, often specifically for a computer compatible with DOS (or nowadays Windows).