special-purpose computer

The technique and experience developed were then used to design other special-purpose computers.

A laser printer is a special-purpose computer with a mind of its own.

In computer hardware there used to be lots of special-purpose computers.

A special-purpose computer is needed to make a diagnosis.

And the same holds for special-purpose computers, even though the unit cost of computing power has been declining.

Large, special-purpose computers were used in the checkout procedures.

Still, special-purpose computers or chips are expected to make a contribution to solving such difficult computer problems as object recognition and the understanding of speech.

Appel and Haken used a special-purpose computer program to check each of these maps had this property.

A special-purpose computer (or software package) that handles the connection between 2 or more networks.

From 1946 to the mid-1960's there were large general purpose machines and some small special-purpose computers and that was that.

In between the two sits a box called a router, which can be a PC running special software, or a special-purpose computer.

Until then, researchers thought that the fields of scientific computing and commercial data processing each required their own type of special-purpose computer.

Most computer peripherals are themselves special-purpose computers.

Although the term implies suggestion, the process is deterministic, and done by executable code, essentially a special-purpose computer language.

Quasicrystals, for example, might permit special-purpose computer components to respond to magnetic fields in ways not possible with conventional semiconductors.

These signals are then converted to digital data using a high-speed special-purpose computer and the data is plotted at high speed to reconstruct an image.

Minicomputers are powerful, special-purpose computers.

Hall conceived of using the compact, effective speech recognition algorithms developed by these scientists in miniaturized, low-power, special-purpose computers.

Attached processors are essentially special-purpose computers that are connected to a host system to accelerate specific types of computation.

A graph reduction machine is a special-purpose computer built to perform combinator calculations by graph reduction.

The proposed restrictions add a new measure, known as equivalent multiply rate, or EMR, which so far has been applied only to special-purpose computers.

Video cameras can be fed into standard or special-purpose computer monitors, and the image can be zoomed in and magnified.

A jump server or jump host or jumpbox is a special-purpose computer on a network typically used to manage devices in a separate security zone.

Special-purpose computer languages have always existed in the computer age, but the term "domain-specific language" has become more popular due to the rise of domain-specific modeling.

In what came to be known as "packet-switching," special-purpose computers would serve as switches to manage the traffic so that many messages could travel at once to different destinations.