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Historical background. The microcomputer, on the one hand, is a logical step in the development of microelectronics which has already given us pocket calculators, particularly of the programmable type and, on the other hand, embodies a variety of concepts and system architectures as realized especially in third generation computers.

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W. Gellert S. Gottwald M. Hellwich H. Kästner H. Küstner

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© 1975 VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig

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Gellert, W., Gottwald, S., Hellwich, M., Kästner, H., Küstner, H. (1975). Microcomputers. In: Gellert, W., Gottwald, S., Hellwich, M., Kästner, H., Küstner, H. (eds) The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6982-0_47

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