COMPUTER ASSIGNMENT

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EKEZIE PRINCEWILL
SCIENCE
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATICS
COMPUTER SCIENCE 101

NETWORK SERVER
A network server is a computer system, which is used as the central
repository of data and various programs that are shared by users in a network.
If you have a computer that you're no longer using due to its slow speed, you
can turn it into a network server for other computers in your household. You'll
have to make sure you have a big enough hard drive (at least 100 GB) to store
all the data you'll be putting on it, especially if you'll be using it to store
videos, images, music or other files that take up a lot of room. It's better not to
use a wireless connection to attach the computers to each other.
Plug your computer into a home networking router, and while your
computer is running, click on the start button, then Settings. Click Control
Panel, and double click Network Setup Wizard (icon of a house with a red
roof). On the first two screens that the Wizard will offer you, click Next; then
click the second choice, "This computer connects to the Internet through a
residential gateway or through another computer on my network."

MAINFRAME COMPUTER
colloquially referred to as [Big iron] are computers used primarily by large
organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing, such as census industry
and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning and transaction processing.
The term originally referred to the large cabinets called "main frames" that housed
the central processing unit and main memory of early computers. Later, the term
was used to distinguish high-end commercial machines from less powerful units.
Most large-scale computer system architectures were established in the 1960s, but
continue to evolve.

SUPER COMPUTERS
A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate
for computers. Traditionally, supercomputers have been used for scientific and engineering
applications that must handle very large databases or do a great amount of computation (or
both). Although advances like multi-core processors and GPGPUs (general-purpose graphics
processing units) have enabled powerful machines for personal use (see: desktop
supercomputer, {GPU supercomputer), by definition, a supercomputer is exceptional in terms
of performance.

MINI
COMPUTERS
A minicomputer is a type of computer that possesses most of the features and
capabilities of a large computer but is smaller in physical size.
A minicomputer fills the space between the mainframe and microcomputer, and is
smaller than the former but larger than the latter. Minicomputers are mainly used as
small or midrange servers operating business and scientific applications. However,
the use of the term minicomputer has diminished and has merged with servers.
A minicomputer may also be called a mid-range computer .