Using personal computers for experimental control

Personal Computers Using Data Envelopment Analysis

The decision to purchase one product rather than another becomes more difficult as the number of alternatives under consideration increases. Having to simultaneously evaluate a large number of product attributes among the alternatives can further complicate this decision process. Notebook personal computers are a good example of a product whose many attributes (e.g. price, performance, display ...

Using non-Personal Computers for eLearning: Sri Lankan Experience

Communal Internet access facilities or telecentres are considered a good way to provide connectivity to people who do not possess home connectivity. Attempts are underway to utilize telecentres as eLearning centres providing access to learning materials to students who would otherwise not be able to take up eLearning. This paper reports on the findings of qualitative interviews conducted with 1...

Personal Computers: A Gateway to Personal Computing

This article is a personal journey, from the early days of batch processing to the modern personal computing era. The journey begins in the early 1970s and starts with the punch cards at the computer centre of the University of Jyväskylä. The use of minicomputers (HP 2100 series) gave a different view – how to collect and process data with a computer. Honeywell timesharing systems made it possi...

Personal computers - risk factors for renal failure.

The Case For Personal Computers As Workstations

using a 32 bit operating system. The authors have developed a set of simple benchmarks that measure integer, floating point, and memory manipulation. The benchmarks were used to measure the performance of a variety of RISC based workstations and Intel CISC based personal computers under several operating systems. On the personal computers based on Intel x86 and Pentium processors, the benchmark...