the minicomputer
1Minicomputer — For small modern computers, see Small form factor, nettop, etc. PDP 7 A minicomputer (colloquially, mini) is a class of multi user computers that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the largest multi user systems… …
2minicomputer — n. (Computers) a mid sized digital computer; at any given point in the development of computer technology, a minicomputer will be faster and have greater capacity than a {microcomputer}, but will be slower and have less capacity than a {mainframe …
3The Oregon Trail (video game) — The Oregon Trail Developer(s) MECC Publisher(s) Brøderbund The Learning Company Gameloft …
4The Design of an Optimizing Compiler — by William Wulf, Richard K. Johnson, Charles B. Weinstock, Steven O. Hobbs, and Charles M. Geschke, was published in 1975 by Elsevier. It describes the BLISS compiler for the PDP 11, written at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1970s. The …
5The Soul of a New Machine — Infobox Book name = The Soul of a New Machine image caption = author = Tracy Kidder cover artist = country = United States subject = Electrical engineering, Electronics publisher = Little, Brown and Company pub date = July 1981 media type =… …
6The Terminal Man — infobox Book | name = The Terminal Man title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = Michael Crichton illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Science fiction novel… …
7The Big Electric Cat — This article is about a computer system. : For the song, see Adrian Belew , for the Australian band, see Big Electric Cat The Big Electric Cat, named for an Adrian Belew song, was a public access computer system in New York City in the late 1980s …
8minicomputer — A scaled down version of a mainframe. A mini computer usually has many terminals connected to it, and can run many programs at the same time. It is more powerful than a microcomputer …
9minicomputer — A computer that is less powerful than a mainframe but more powerful than a personal computer It is unable to handle as many people or programs at the same time as a mainframe, but it is adequate for a wide range of business and scientific… …
10PC12 minicomputer — PC12 by Artronix was a minicomputer built with TTL74 technology and ferrite memory. Computers were manufactured at the Artronix facility in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. An oral history transcript from Prof. Jerome Cox is at [1]. The instruction… …
