If you’re looking to soup up your whip, the first place you’ll probably look is the engine control unit. This computer shoved in the engine compartment controls just about every aspect … ...

The control unit extracts information from a storage device, like the RAM, and executes the code contained within the data. The processor uses the ALU to perform mathematical calculations and ...

The CDC 3800 was a large mainframe computer optimized for handling problems that required a lot of numeric processing. Control Data Corporation of Minneapolis-St. Paul introduced the 3800 in the early ...