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Meanings of general-purpose computer in English

Russian
компьютер
Portuguese
computador
Catalan
ordinador
Spanish
computador
Wikidata

General-purpose device for performing arithmetic or logical operations.

Related terms
компьютер
Usage of general-purpose computer in English
1
The point, however, is to find the first such formulation, just as Turing found the first formulation of the general-purpose computer.
The Master Algorithm
2
Newman went on to found the computing laboratory at Manchester University which produced a prototype of the first programmable general-purpose computer.
The Guardian
3
This was accomplished with two general-purpose computer channels with plated-wire memories (.pdf), each with an 18,000-word storage capacity.
Wired
4
That creates the possibility of using slime molds to build new types of general-purpose computers.
Wired
5
Now, a group of researchers has shown these amoeba-like single-cell organisms could be used to build general-purpose computers.
Wired
Translations for general-purpose computer
Portuguese
computador