Serial computers required much less hardware than their parallel counterpart, but were much slower.
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Functionally, EDVAC was a binary serial computer with automatic addition, subtraction, multiplication, programmed division and automatic checking with an words.
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The 2650 provided the base operating system functions, data transfer, and interface to a host computer or serial computer terminal.
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All computers before 1951, and most of the early massive parallel processing machines used a bit-serial architecture they were serial computers.
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RightOne theory of the mind that was examined in these experiments was the " brain as serial computer " philosophical metaphor of the 1970s.
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The "'Gemini Guidance Computer "'( sometimes "'Gemini Spacecraft On-Board Computer "'( OBC ) ) was a digital, serial computer designed for Project Gemini, America's second manned space project.
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Recent studies in neurology and neuropsychology on mental imagery have further questioned the " mind as serial computer " theory, arguing instead that human mental imagery manifests both visually and kinesthetically.
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The popularity of the Selectric mechanism caused computer manufacturers such as Digital Equipment to support the 134.5 baud data rate on their serial computer interfaces, enabling connection of IBM Type 2741 terminals.
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If Blue Gene has to work like a traditional serial computer for just one second out of 10, 000, it will be only 1 percent as efficient as it would otherwise be.
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Consequently, all serial computers and many early computers, such as the PDP-8, had a simple ALU that operated on one data bit at a time, although they often presented a wider word size to programmers.