13 Facts About Electronic computers

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The speed, power and versatility of Electronic computers have been increasing dramatically ever since then, with transistor counts increasing at a rapid pace, leading to the Digital Revolution during the late 20th to early 21st centuries.

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Electronic computers gave a successful demonstration of its use in computing tables in 1906.

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3.

Early digital Electronic computers were electromechanical; electric switches drove mechanical relays to perform the calculation.

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4.

Electronic computers spent eleven months from early February 1943 designing and building the first Colossus.

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Electronic computers proved that such a machine is capable of computing anything that is computable by executing instructions stored on tape, allowing the machine to be programmable.

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Except for the limitations imposed by their finite memory stores, modern Electronic computers are said to be Turing-complete, which is to say, they have algorithm execution capability equivalent to a universal Turing machine.

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Transistorized Electronic computers could contain tens of thousands of binary logic circuits in a relatively compact space.

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8.

Electronic computers's chip solved many practical problems that Kilby's had not.

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Since ENIAC in 1945, Electronic computers have advanced enormously, with modern SoCs being the size of a coin while being hundreds of thousands of times more powerful than ENIAC, integrating billions of transistors, and consuming only a few watts of power.

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Multiprocessor and multi-core personal and laptop Electronic computers are now widely available, and are being increasingly used in lower-end markets as a result.

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The simplest Electronic computers are able to perform any of a handful of different instructions; the more complex Electronic computers have several hundred to choose from, each with a unique numerical code.

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12.

Since Electronic computers merely execute the instructions they are given, bugs are nearly always the result of programmer error or an oversight made in the program's design.

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However different designs of Electronic computers can give very different performance for particular problems; for example quantum Electronic computers can potentially break some modern encryption algorithms very quickly.

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