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The U.S. military's SAGE system was the first large-scale example of such a system, which led to a number of special-purpose commercial systems such as Sabre. [140] In the 1970s, computer engineers at research institutions throughout the United States began to link their computers together using telecommunications technology.
The term supermini computer or simply supermini was used to distinguish more powerful minicomputers that approached mainframes in capability. Superminis (such as the DEC VAX or Data General Eclipse MV/8000) were usually 32-bit at a time when most minicomputers (such as the PDP-11 or Data General Eclipse or IBM Series/1) were 16-bit.
General-purpose technologies (GPTs) are technologies that can affect an entire economy (usually at a national or global level). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] GPTs have the potential to drastically alter societies through their impact on pre-existing economic and social structures.
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The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer, announced to the public in 1946. It was Turing-complete, [ 45 ] digital, and capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.
Special software kernel - the vendor uses or creates a general-purpose computer, and designs a new operating system that integrates the application into the operating system. Cisco's IOS is an example; the Unix-like operating system has firewall functions and network/firewall configuration commands built into it.
The system was also a general purpose computer, with a number of special-purpose hardware registers. The instruction set contained 78 instructions. The instruction set contained 78 instructions. Assemblers were provided for the DATANET-30, one of which could run on the DATANET itself and one on the GE-225.
Another track of development is to combine reconfigurable logic with a general-purpose CPU. In this scheme, a special computer language compiles fast-running subroutines into a bit-mask to configure the logic. Slower, or less-critical parts of the program can be run by sharing their time on the CPU.