Sentence examples for a general purpose computer from inspiring English sources

But in hearing the Alice case on appeal this year, the Supreme Court rejected that argument by holding that an abstract idea is not patentable merely because it was implemented on a general purpose computer in a generic way ("each step does no more than require a generic computer to perform generic computer functions").

He was renowned for breaking German ciphers in the second world war and helped develop the Turing machine, a model of a general purpose computer.

For example, the researchers dispute the view that the human mind is a "general purpose computer" that is programmed by parents, schools and other cultural influences only after birth.

It is worth mentioning that a general purpose computer needs more than three instructions to process a byte [52 54].

The model has been implemented into a general purpose computer program and agrees well with experimental results.

The methodology is implemented in a general purpose computer program and applied to the study of a complex trainset.

We use HORN-4 as an attached processor to enhance the performance of a general-purpose computer when it is used to generate holograms using a "recurrence formulas" algorithm developed by our previous paper.

"I realized at once that this was a general-purpose computer".

(source) Now: "a general-purpose computer contained in a touchscreen panel".

Solving such a specific task is a far cry from building a general-purpose computer.

But using the Raspberry Pi as a general-purpose computer is missing the point.