Task 2 - Hardware Technology

What is Hardware Technology?

Hardware technology is the making, modification, usage and knowledge of computer devices and peripherals

What is Mainframe computer?

A powerful computers use for critical applications and massive data processing used commonly by corporate and government organizations. example is IBM zSeries and System z10 servers.

What is a Minicomputer?

A class of smaller computers that is capable of running programs in a higher level language, such as Fortran or Basic. Example is Data General Nova, a 16-bit minicomputer.

What is Supercomputer?

A very large computer with very large computing power and huge RAM. The use of massively parallel processing distinguishes a supercomputer from the others. One supercomputer contains 5800 processor and more than a trillion bytes of RAM. It is mainly used in the sciences of engineering. Examples are Blue Gene and The Cray.

What is Microcomputer?

Microcomputers are the one that is mostly being use nowadays in our generation, it has a microprocessor as its Central Processing Unit(CPU), a memory, and input/output facilities. It is also called as personal computers. The examples are laptop and PC.