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Computer Lecture 3

This document discusses different categories of computers based on purpose and capacity. It describes: 1) General-purpose computers that can solve various problems flexibly, and special-purpose computers designed for a single task. 2) Classification by capacity - mainframes have the largest storage and fastest processing, followed by minicomputers, with microcomputers having CPUs on a single chip and being the most affordable. 3) Mainframes can process data at billionths of a second, are very flexible but expensive. Examples given are supercomputers and IBM System/360. Minicomputers are less powerful and cheaper than mainframes. Microcomputers started as single-user but now compete with minicomputers'

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Computer Lecture 3

This document discusses different categories of computers based on purpose and capacity. It describes: 1) General-purpose computers that can solve various problems flexibly, and special-purpose computers designed for a single task. 2) Classification by capacity - mainframes have the largest storage and fastest processing, followed by minicomputers, with microcomputers having CPUs on a single chip and being the most affordable. 3) Mainframes can process data at billionths of a second, are very flexible but expensive. Examples given are supercomputers and IBM System/360. Minicomputers are less powerful and cheaper than mainframes. Microcomputers started as single-user but now compete with minicomputers'

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LESSON 3
Categories of
Computers
A. According to Purpose :
1. General-Purpose Computer
-- Designed to solve different problems
in various fields to meet the needs of
the user.
2. Special Purpose Computers
-- Designed to do just one specific
task. An inflexible Computer.
B. According to Capacity :
-- Depends upon the level of works
that it can handle or how fast it can
process the given data.

DIVISIONS OF COMPUTER
According to Capacity

1. Mainframe
-- A computer having a very large main storage
capacities of up to 1.5 million characters or
more.
-- Very fast data in processing with the speed of
one billionth of a second per operation.

-- Highly flexible and they are quite expensive.

EXAMPLE :
Supercomputer --The biggest and the fastest
mainframe.
CM – 5 Supercomputer
CM-5 Supercomputer
The Connection Machine CM-5 supercomputer is
a massively parallel processing computer capable
of many billions of arithmetic operations per
second. The computer contains hundreds of
processing units, similar to the central processing
units (CPUs) in personal computers. The
processing units are linked together in parallel so
that multiple computations can be carried out
simultaneously.
Uses :

-- Nuclear
Development

-- Worldwide
weather
forecasting.
IBM SYSTEM /360 Mainframe Computer
2. Minicomputer

--- are smaller than Mainframe computer in terms


of storage capacity.
--- They are powerful machines, but not as
powerful as mainframes. Their performance speed
is slower.

--- They are less expensive compared to


mainframes.
3. Microcomputers
--- Computers that have their central processing
unit (CPU ) contained in single silicon chip,
known as the Microprocessor.
--- This type of computer is so inexpensive that it
has become part of several homes nowadays.
--- Microcomputers were initially designed to be used
by a single user. However, since the mid-1980’s, their
capabilities have been growing impressively and more
powerful, that they began competing with the
performance of minicomputers specially when small
volumes of data for processing is involved.
The MICRO
COMPUTER

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