• A serial computer is a computer typified by bit-serial architecture – i.e., internally operating on one bit or digit for each clock cycle. Machines with...
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  • two devices using a serial communication protocol Serial computer, a computer typified by its bit-serial architecture Bit-serial architecture, a 1-bit...
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    computers, data has been transferred through serial ports to devices such as modems, terminals, various peripherals, and directly between computers....
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    transmission, serial communication is the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus. This is...
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    that depends on the host computer for its processing power is called a "dumb terminal" or a thin client. In the era of serial (RS-232) terminals there...
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  • In computer architecture, bit-serial architectures send data one bit at a time, along a single wire, in contrast to bit-parallel word architectures, in...
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    number electronic devices. Serial numbers may be used to identify individual physical or intangible objects; for example, computer software or the right to...
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    parallel to serial buses was allowed by Moore's law which allowed for the incorporation of SerDes in integrated circuits which are used in computers. Network...
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    SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives...
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  • floating-point operations, were performed by subroutines, using the underlying serial computer ALU primitives add, subtract, shift right, shift left, and increment...
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    Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early electronic serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious design...
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    electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse in 1938, and completed in 1941. It was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. The...
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    The Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital computer. The device was limited by the technology of the day. The ABC's...
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  • Serial Experiments Lain is a Japanese anime television series created and co-produced by Yasuyuki Ueda, written by Chiaki J. Konaka and directed by Ryūtarō...
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    Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. Other computers had some of these...
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  • for Nikolay, the Alicante serial killer who was imprisoned in Russia - S Chronicles - Computer Network Topology". Computer Network Topology. Retrieved...
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    A vacuum-tube computer, now termed a first-generation computer, is a computer that uses vacuum tubes for logic circuitry. While the history of mechanical...
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    20 MIPS instructions). A serial computer processes data a single bit at a time. For example, the PDP-8/S was a 12-bit computer using a 1-bit ALU, processing...
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    in an integrated circuit (IC) and used for serial communications over a computer or peripheral device serial port. One or more UART peripherals are commonly...
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    commercial digital computer, and is the oldest surviving programmable computer.: 1028  It was designed, and manufactured by early computer scientist Konrad...
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    seventh computer model Konrad Zuse developed (the first six being the Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5 and Z11, respectively). One of the early commercial computers, the...
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  • SCSI (redirect from Serial SCSI buses)
    largely been displaced by the faster serial SCSI (SAS) host adapters. The "small" reference in "small computer system interface" is historical; since...
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    (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer or Standards Electronic Automatic Computer) was a first-generation electronic computer, built in 1950 by the U.S....
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  • electronic computers were serial (single-bit) computers. The first electronic computer that was not a serial computer—the first bit-parallel computer—was the...
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    binary serial computer with automatic addition, subtraction, multiplication, programmed division and automatic checking with an ultrasonic serial memory...
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    Bendix G-15 (category Serial computers)
    The Bendix G-15 is a computer introduced in 1956 by the Bendix Corporation, Computer Division, Los Angeles, California. It is about 5 ft × 3 ft × 3 ft...
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    Kenbak-1 (category Serial computers)
    Output consisted of a row of lights. Internally, the Kenbak-1 has a serial computer architecture, processing one bit at a time.: 16  The Kenbak-1 has a...
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    Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used...
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    early computer custom-built to play Nim, inspired by the earlier Nimatron. The twelve-by-nine-by-five-foot (3.7-by-2.7-by-1.5-meter) computer, designed...
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    HP-35 (category Serial computers)
    2023-09-29. p. 124: […] The HP-35 is a totally serial computer. The adder is a BCD serial type […] The serial structure means less integrated circuit area...
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