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  2. History of computing hardware (1960s–present) - Wikipedia

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    The history of computing hardware starting at 1960 is marked by the conversion from vacuum tube to solid-state devices such as transistors and then integrated circuit (IC) chips. Around 1953 to 1959, discrete transistors started being considered sufficiently reliable and economical that they made further vacuum tube computers uncompetitive .

  3. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    See also References External links A Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) A dedicated video bus standard introduced by INTEL enabling 3D graphics capabilities; commonly present on an AGP slot on the motherboard. (Presently a historical expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard (and considered high-speed at launch, one of the last off-chip parallel ...

  4. Computer hardware - Wikipedia

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    The storage of computer programs is key to the operation of modern computers and is the connection between computer hardware and software. [7] Even prior to this, in the mid-19th century mathematician George Boole invented Boolean algebra —a system of logic where each proposition is either true or false.

  5. List of computer standards - Wikipedia

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    Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) 1.1 2007/12 Desktop Management Interface (DMI) 2.0.1s 2003/01/10 DDC/CI: 1.1 2004/10 DisplayPort: 1.2 2009/12/22 DVI: 1.0 1999/04/02 Enhanced Display Data Channel (E-DDC) 1.2 2007/12/26 Double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM) JESD79-3

  6. Hardware abstraction - Wikipedia

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    A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is an abstraction layer, implemented in software, between the physical hardware of a computer and the software that runs on that computer. . Its function is to hide differences in hardware from most of the operating system kernel, so that most of the kernel-mode code does not need to be changed to run on systems with different hardwa

  7. High-level design - Wikipedia

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    High-level design (HLD) explains the architecture that would be used to develop a system.The architecture diagram provides an overview of an entire system, identifying the main components that would be developed for the product and their interfaces.

  8. History of computing hardware - Wikipedia

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    The history of computing hardware spans the developments from early devices used for simple calculations to today's complex computers, encompassing advancements in both analog and digital technology. The first aids to computation were purely mechanical devices which required the operator to set up the initial values of an elementary arithmetic ...

  9. Interface (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The exchange can be between software, computer hardware, peripheral devices, humans, and combinations of these. [1] Some computer hardware devices, such as a touchscreen , can both send and receive data through the interface, while others such as a mouse or microphone may only provide an interface to send data to a given system.