Milestones in Computer Science and Information TechnologyBloomsbury Academic, 2003. aug. 30. - 392 oldal Using the same approach as the popular Milestones in Science and Technology and Milestones in Health and Medicine, this unique reference features more than 600 concise entries describing the most significant advances in the field of computer science and information technology. Arranged in a convenient A-to-Z format, entries explain topics in a wide variety of categories, including hardware, software, theory, mathematics, programming, languages, memory, architecture, applications, and graphics. |
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... storage MEMORY Auxiliary storage is memory that supplements the main random access memory ( RAM ) of a digital computer . Auxiliary storage generally has more capacity than main memory at the ex- pense of greater time to access its ...
... storage . The earliest form of memory that has survived to this day consists of etchings on recently found ochre ... storage , but the major current forms of such storage are floppy disks ( diskettes ) , hard disks , and vari- ous kinds ...
... storage or record data on such units for use as input to the computer ( see Input / output [ I / O ] ) . The earliest computer peripherals were offline key - to - punched card devices ( keypunches — see Hollerith machine ) , key - to ...
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Listing of Cited References | 283 |
Classification of Articles | 297 |
Chronological Index | 343 |
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