The ability to store and execute instructions, the stored program concept, is the most important property of a general-purpose computer.

存储并执行指令的能力（存储程序的概念）是通用计算机最重要的特性。

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This machine, as a dual-purpose computer-controlled artificial fur machine with two functions of plain color and jacquard knitting is really a domestically leading jacquard fur machine.

该机为国内领先的一机双用电脑提花人造毛皮机，可编织素色或提花毛皮。

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The embedded system is a special-purpose computer system which meets the particular requirement and has strict requirements for the function, dependability, cost, volume and consumption.

嵌入式系统是满足特定要求的专用计算机系统，一般对功能、可靠性、成本、体积和功耗有严格的要求。

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In Rome,where some in line were greeted with espressos and juggling clowns, a man who identified himself as Vincenzo, said he was looking for an all-purpose computer.

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We were both wondering, you have this general purpose computer next to your ear why were you not able to make that sale?

我们都在想，你手边就有一台电脑,为什么你不能完成这次买卖？

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Instead of sprawls of special-purpose computer servers--one for Internet applications, one for e-mail and so on--a virtualized system uses one machine to do all of these functions.

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There was, however, an even bigger conceptual breakthrough: the mobile device as general purpose computer, open to the world of software, powered by the resources of the cloud.

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Therefore, any patent that claims a method of solving a problem by programming a general-purpose computer is, like the patent the high court struck down 40 years ago, effectively a patent on a mathematical algorithm.

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