BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
COMPUTER SYSTEM TYPES
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bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and transaction processing.
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a printed circuit board that controls the output to a display screen
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decimal prefix meaning “a million million” or 1012
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a type of hardware device that converts between analog and digital data in real time for two-way network communication.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mainframes have been used for such applications as payroll computations, accounting, business transactions, information retrieval, airline seat reservations, and scientific and engineering computations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Supercomputers are used for data-intensive and computation-heavy scientific and engineering purposes such as quantum mechanics, weather forecasting, oil and gas exploration, molecular modeling, physical simulations, aerodynamics, nuclear fusion research and cryptoanalysis.
Detailed explanation-3: -The IBM Z line of mainframes presently comprises the latest model, IBM z16, along with z15, z14, and z13, as well as IBM zEnterprise, IBM System z10, IBM System z9, and IBM eServer zSeries models.