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3. Compute and Virtualization

Ralf Süß1   and Yannik Süß2
(1)
Singapore, Singapur, Singapore
(2)
Unterhaching, Bayern, Germany
 

A system that can be programmed to carry out arithmetic or logical operations is automatically called a computer. Over the last 80 years, computers have evolved from machines that were very expensive, slow, only able to calculate simple functions, cumbersome, and difficult to manage to a ubiquitous building block of almost every modern electronic device, machine, and system.

Most industrial and consumer products above a certain complexity use computers as control ...

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