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  2. List of home computers - Wikipedia

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    Homebuilt computer. List of home computers by video hardware classified by video interface. List of computers running CP/M contains a list of personal computers running CP/M. These were usually intended for small office use. List of Soviet computer systems includes many "home" systems as well as office and " big iron " systems.

  3. von Neumann architecture - Wikipedia

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    von Neumann architecture. The von Neumann architecture —also known as the von Neumann model or Princeton architecture —is a computer architecture based on a 1945 description by John von Neumann, and by others, in the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC. [ 1 ] The document describes a design architecture for an electronic digital computer ...

  4. Computer vision - Wikipedia

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    In image processing, the input is an image and the output is an image as well, whereas in computer vision, an image or a video is taken as an input and the output could be an enhanced image, an understanding of the content of an image or even behavior of a computer system based on such understanding.

  5. Mainframe computer - Wikipedia

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    A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, [ 1 ] is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing.

  6. Altair 8800 - Wikipedia

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    A kit-built Altair 8800 computer with the popular Model 33 ASR (Automatic Send and Receive) Teletype as terminal. The typical MITS product had a generic name like the "Model 1440 Calculator" or the "Model 1600 Digital Voltmeter". Ed Roberts was busy finishing the design and left the naming of the computer to the editors of Popular Electronics.

  7. Minicomputer - Wikipedia

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    Data General Nova, serial number 1, on display at the Computer History Museum. A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a type of smaller general-purpose computer developed in the mid-1960s [1][2] and sold at a much lower price than mainframe [3] and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors. In a 1970 survey, The New York Times ...

  8. Computer hardware - Wikipedia

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    The universal Turing machine was a type of stored-program computer capable of mimicking the operations of any Turing machine (computer model) based on the software instructions passed to it. The storage of computer programs is key to the operation of modern computers and is the connection between computer hardware and software. [ 7 ]

  9. Computer simulation - Wikipedia

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    Process of building a computer model, and the interplay between experiment, simulation, and theory. Computer simulation is the running of a mathematical model on a computer, the model being designed to represent the behaviour of, or the outcome of, a real-world or physical system. The reliability of some mathematical models can be determined by ...