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noun mini·com·put·er \ ˌmi-nē-kəm-ˈpyü-tər \

Definition of minicomputer

:a small computer that is intermediate between a microcomputer and a mainframe in size, speed, and capacity, that can support time-sharing, and that is often dedicated to a single application

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Kim had earned membership in the all-powerful Communist Party through years of work helping to create North Korea’s own computers, including the Paektusan minicomputer, named for the mountain where Kim Jong-il was said to have been born.

— andy greenberg, WIRED, "The Plot to Free North Korea With Smuggled Episodes of ‘Friends’," 1 Mar. 2015

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First Known Use of minicomputer

1967

Other Computer-Related Terms

adware, flash, kludge, phishing, recursive, router

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