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A large digital computer serving 100 400 users and occupying a special air conditioned room At any given point in development of computer technology the mainframe will be faster have large main memeory and be more capable than a minicomputer which will in turn be faster and more capable than a personal computer The typical personal computer in 1999 is faster than a mainframe was in 1970...
EBCDIC
a 8 bit code for representing alphanumerical information in a digital information storage medium It was used expecially on IBM mainframes and differed substantially from the ASCII code...
minicomputer
a mid sized digital computer at any given point in the development of computer technology a minicomputer will be faster and have greater capacity than a microcomputer but will be slower and have less capacity than a mainframe computer...
PC
A personal computer a computer2 designed for use by one person at a time contrasted with shared time computers such as mainframes and minicomputers which may be accessed by multiple users each operating from a different input device in the 1990s usually a terminal A personal computer typically uses a microprocessor for its CPU...
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