computer hardware

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(computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system

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When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about. Ward Cunningham

Advances in both computer hardware and compiler technology soon made Lisp machines obsolete. Source: Internet

Application software is often purchased separately from computer hardware. Source: Internet

At first, the cost of such computer hardware meant that it had to be shared among many users. Source: Internet

Both the computer hardware and software interface of the 16550 are backward compatible with the earlier 8250 UART and 16450 UART. Source: Internet

But the internal design philosophy was quite different, focusing on keeping the system small and simple, and so correcting some deficiencies of Multics because of its high resource demands on the limited computer hardware of the time. Source: Internet

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