About of Computer

Over the years there have been several quite different meanings to the word 'computer', and a few different words for things we now usually called the computer.

For example "computer" are generally never used to mean hiring people to perform arithmetic calculations, with or without engine assist. According to the Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology, the word is used in English in 1646 as the word for "people who count" and then before 1897 is also to "mechanical calculators. During World War II, the word refers to the workers the U.S. and British women whose jobs take a big war artillery road with such machines.

Charles Babbage designed one of the first calculating machine called the analytical engine, but because of technology problems are not made in his life. Various tools are simple machines like a good slide rule was also mentioned the computer. In some cases they are referred to as "analog computer", as they symbolize the number of continuous physical quantities rather than in addition to the different binary digits. What is now called the "computer" is generally only ever called "digital computers" to distinguish them from other tools (which is still used in the field of analog signal processing, for example).

In the thinking of other words for the computer, it is observed that prices in other languages chosen words do not always have the same literal meaning as the English word. In the French language for example, the word is "ordinateur", which means roughly "organizer", or "separating machine". In the Spanish used the word "ordenador", with the same meaning, although in some countries they use anglicism computadora. In Italian, the computer is "calcolatore", calculator, Computational pressed using logic behind such a sorting. In Swedish, a computer called "dator" from "data". Or at least the 1950s, they were called "matematikmaskin" (math engines). In Language Indonesians, the computer called "dien lake" or a "brain power". In English, other words and phrases are used, such as "data processing machines".