HSM is a long-established concept, dating back to the beginnings of commercial data processing.
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The 9003 did not have floating point arithmetic instructions since it was intended for commercial data processing.
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Aside from debugging, scientific programming is typically exploratory, by contrast to commercial data processing where the same work is repeated on a regular schedule.
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Nevertheless, object databases have been used successfully in many applications : usually specialized applications such as engineering databases or molecular biology databases rather than mainstream commercial data processing.
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This era began in 1945 with the development of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator ( ENIAC ) and was focused on producing even faster and more powerful computers for commercial data processing.
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There was some similarity to Unix in the use of ( mainly ) device-independent serial byte oriented streams in the file system and interprocess communication, in contrast to the record-oriented file systems then dominant in commercial data processing.
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The last such wave of corporate involvement in start-ups was around 1980, when windfall oil profits and gains from defense buildups created mountains of cash for investment _ and led to such flops as Raytheon Co .'s ill-fated entry into commercial data processing and Exxon Corp .'s failed attempt to build office computers and fax machines.
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Hewlett-Packard is credited with producing such varied devices as fetal heart monitors ( 1967 ), programmable scientific calculators and light-emitting diode displays ( 1968 ), the first commercial data processing machines ( 1973 ), the first random access memory computers ( 1974 ), the first affordable laser printers ( 1980 ) and a pioneering e-mail system ( 1982 ).