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What is 'ORACLE' ? |
Answer : |
| ORACLE is an acronym for Oak Ridge Automatic
Computer and Logical Engine. |
| ORACLE is an
automatic digital computing machine at the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory in the USA. |
| It used vacuum tubes, transistors, and diodes.
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It used a Williams tube for 2048 words of memory.
Its addition time was 70 microseconds, the multiplication time was 370-590 microseconds,
and the division time was 590 microseconds. These times include the storage access time,
which was about 62 microseconds.
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