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elplural.com was born as a project by the Catalan journalist Enric Sopena, [1] [2] whose previous experience came from audiovisual or written media such as La Vanguardia and TVE. Despite its geographical origin in Catalonia, El Plural deals with national and international topics, and over time a fixed section has focused on Andalusia , together ...
Dell Inspiron One 23 Touch, an all-in-one PC from 2012. 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.
PDP-11 CPU board. Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, and computer case.
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 ...
C99 adds several functions and types for fine-grained control of floating-point environment. [3] These functions can be used to control a variety of settings that affect floating-point computations, for example, the rounding mode, on what conditions exceptions occur, when numbers are flushed to zero, etc.
Mac is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple since 1984. The name is short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), a reference to a type of apple called McIntosh.
IBM 1620 data processing machine with IBM 1627 plotter, on display at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. The IBM 1620 was a model of scientific minicomputer produced by IBM.It was announced on October 21, 1959, [1] and was then marketed as an inexpensive scientific computer. [2]
The lambda calculus, developed in the 1930s by Alonzo Church, is a formal system of computation built from function application.In 1937 Alan Turing proved that the lambda calculus and Turing machines are equivalent models of computation, [37] showing that the lambda calculus is Turing complete.