Word: cpu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frankly, if you wanted an IBM-compatible computer, you had to buy an Intel chip, period. And without real competitors in the CPU market, chip prices (and thus computer prices) never drifted down...
...case the Pilot is a little too small to put under the Christmas tree, you might want to consider buying a new monitor, CPU or scanner for a very, very special person in your life...
...world: What kind of computer do you have? When I ask a non-technical person the question, the response is a brand-name, like Compaq, Gateway 2000 or Apple. When I ask a "computer person" the question, the response is the name of the computer's central processing unit (CPU), such as 486 or Pentium...
...difference between the responses is a fundamental one; but it is frequently misunderstood outside of the computer world. The name on the front of the computer's case is simply the name of the company that put the computer together. A CPU is the single-chip brain of modern personal computers that performs the most basic computer operations, like addition or multiplication...
...CPU--and not the brand--defines the type of computer on your desk, although some brand-names are strongly linked to a microprocessor--for example, Macintosh is linked to both Motorola's 68000 and the PowerPC chip. When the computer store salesperson says that a computer conforms to the IBM PC standard or is Windows compatible, he or she is really referring to the computer's microprocessor...