What Are the General Types of Computers Based on Capability?
computers image by Olga Chernetskaya from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a06/hc/2k/general-types-computers-based-capability_-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); Computers range in size and capability. Computers are machines that are manually programmed to perform calculations and tasks that range in complexity, scale and range. Not all computers are similar; they differ in capabilities, size, price and usability, and are designed to meet the diverse needs of a variety of end users—nuclear scientists, waste water engineers, financial consultants, students and homeowners. Supercomputers Supercomputers, also called high-performance computers, lie at one end of the capability spectrum. According to V. Rajaraman in the book “Super Computers,” supercomputers are machines that possess extremely high computing speed, higher capacity for storage, faster primary memory and faster secondary memory as compared
