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I. Answer the following questions:
What types of computes are used in information systems?
What is a mainframe?
What do the mainframes usually require?
Where are the mainframes housed and used?
What are the computer terminals composed of?
Which are the biggest and fastest computers in use today?
Which computer is relatively inexpensive one among other types of computers in use today?
Why personal computers are sometimes called as desktop computers?
What characteristics does a workstation have?
How do the workstations differ from PCs?
II. Translate the following sentences from English into your language:
Hewlett-Packard and Sun are well-known for their workstations.
The NeXT computer developed by Steven Jobs is considered by many specialists to be a workstation.
Steven Jobs is a co-founder of Apple Computers which are widely in use today.
The personal computer is able to accomplish one or multiple tasks.
Different sizes and types of personal computers have different capabilities.
Computers also differ for their speed from slowest to fastest.
Over the past 20 years computers have become faster and smaller while also becoming much less expensive.
Computer terminals are usually composed of a keyboard and a display screen.
Supercomputers are used exclusively for research projects.
A mainframe is a very expensive computer which is usually sold for over $1million.
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