Wednesday 6 January 2016

Microcomputer




Your personal computer is a microcomputer. Technically, a microcomputer is a computer in which the CPU (central processing unit, the brains of the computer) is contained on one single chip, microprocessor. Most workstations are also considered micro computers, for the same reason, although some personal computers are as fast as the fastest workstation. And a computer used by more than one person (a multi-user computer) is still a microcomputer as long as it has a microprocessor for its CPU.
The next step up from a microcomputer On size, speed, capabilities, and price) is a minicomputer. Then a mainframe. Then a super computer.

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