It was used as a standard minicomputer for general-purpose computing, such as timesharing, scientific, educational, or business computing.
en.wikipedia.org It was designed to be the first minicomputer delivered with a full featured operating system with time-sharing.
en.wikipedia.org Microprocessor-based computers were originally very limited in their computational ability and speed, and were in no way an attempt to downsize the minicomputer.
en.wikipedia.org For example, the minicomputer industry began, grew up, got big, profitable, smug, senile and died in 20 years from 1975 to 1995.
en.wikipedia.org The central processing unit consists of a minicomputer, a computer console and page printer, a magnetic tape transport and a magnetic disk memory unit.
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