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COMPUTER
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used for making documents small.
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used as small or mid-range servers operating business and scientific applications.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Minicomputers are used for entertainment, gaming, and other computing tasks such as scientific computations, business-transaction processing, database management, file handling, etc. It is useful for small organizations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Minicomputers are mainly used by businesses to manage the production process. Data acquisition and feedback are the two main functions of Process Control. Minicomputers are used in factories to regulate the production process, for example.
Detailed explanation-3: -A minicomputer is also called as a mid-range computer. Minicomputers are mainly multi-users systems where more than one user can work simultaneously. Mini computer examples: IBM’s AS/400e, Honeywell200, TI-990. Minicomputer can support multi-users at a time or you can say that minicomputer is a multiprocessing system.
Detailed explanation-4: -When single-chip CPU microprocessors appeared, beginning with the Intel 4004 in 1971, the term “minicomputer” came to mean a machine that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the smallest mainframe computers and the microcomputers.