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The General-Purpose Computer
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A general-purpose computer runs any program a programmer specifies, not one fixed task — the property separating computers from single-purpose calculating machines.
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ENIAC, among the earliest digital computers, could compute anything today's machines can — trillions of times more slowly.
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The gap between eras is speed.