Throughout the 1960s, computers went through a series of major advances in technology, design, speed, price, storage, and ...

Another example of great programming was IBM's 360 system. The software was written as the first general-purpose computer operating system in 1964. Many of the truths we assume today about ...

which is essentially every computer. A general-purpose computer can perform any data processing operation that the instructions in a program tell it to do. However, there are countless appliances ...

completes the first general purpose progammable calculator in 1941. He pioneers the use of binary math and boolean logic in electronic calculation. Colossus, a British computer used for code ...

Building an 8-bit computer is something he’d like to do, but in the meantime he decided to do a project using one of these chips as a general-purpose microcontroller similar to a modern Arduino.

Any computer-based device that accepts different applications. All mainframes, servers, laptop and desktop computers, as well as smartphones and tablets are general-purpose devices. In contrast ...

performed some testing on the incomplete platform to see how it performed as a general-purpose computer. They found that by eliminating all but a few instructions and running those without a ...

the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer. The fusion of academic excellence and commercial skills helped turn a dream into a reality. "It's one thing having an idea and ...

With those words, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the world´s first large-scale electronic general-purpose digital computer, developed at The Moore School of Electrical ...