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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.

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        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