microcomputer
microcomputer
Definition
micro·com·puter (mī′krō kəm pyo̵̅o̅t′ər)
noun
a small, relatively inexpensive computer whose central processing unit is a microprocessor: used in the home, small businesses, etc.
microcomputer
Telecom Definition
Synonymous with personal computer (PC).A computer built around a single central processing unit (CPU), a microcomputer is less capable than a midrange computer, or minicomputer, and certainly much less capable than a mainframe computer. See also CPU, mainframe computer, and minicomputer.
microcomputer
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- use: On the latest survey data, more than 50 % of Quebec's lawyers, for instance, now use a microcomputer.
- include: Social scientists gained much more access to computers and computer storage for data, including microcomputers.
- share: The simulations may be used with any number of teams and, if necessary, up to three teams may share a microcomputer.
- base: The UK101 is an 8-bit microcomputer based on the MOS Technologies 6502.
- allow: The system also allows each microcomputer in the network to access a central data storage and retrieval device, the file server.
- design: Telesoftware was touted as a method of training the unemployed, through intelligent viewdata sets, to design microcomputers and 64K memory chips.
Adjective modifier
- IBM-compatible: The new PROSPECT database has been set up on an IBM-compatible microcomputer using the FoxPro ( dBase compatible ) database package.
- single: The next part of the day comprises a practical hands-on session where students build and test a simple, single board microcomputer.
- own: By the end of the day students will have built and programmed their own microcomputer and will understand how they work.
- first: I b uilt my first computer in 1980, soldering every component into one of the first single-board microcomputers.
- other: Sinclair has matched the QL against other microcomputers on the market, including the BBC Micro.
- desktop: Electronic whiteboard - The use of desktop microcomputers for sharing screen data.
Modifies a noun
- software: The number of site licenses taken out by the University for microcomputer software is growing slowly.
- user: This means that the data can be used to give access to more expensive facilities that the home microcomputer user cannot afford.
- system: The availability of microcomputer systems has enabled a new course on Advanced Microcomputer Assembly Code Programming to be given.
- laboratory: There are also three microcomputer laboratories reserved for Biology students.
- program: Software sold on hard disk SEVERAL RECORD companies have moved into the software business by including microcomputer programs on their latest record releases.
- hardware: What about the big hitters in microcomputer hardware, are they likely to support Linux?
Noun used with modifier
- control: The remote control system, comprising the keypad, transmitter. infra-red link, amplifier and control microcomputer.
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