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They are usually connected to a larger network via a local area network (LAN). Unlike desktop computers, portable PCs house all of the core components as well as the equipment needed to operate in one enclosure, including keys and a screen. Some of the most common portable devices are laptops, tablets, and smartphones. There are multiple components that make up a PC. These can be broken up into hardware and software. The CPU (central processing unit) is the brain of the computer. It’s the most important component of a PC. The GPU (graphics processing unit) is used to create and render elements for 3D visual representations. Storage devices, including HDDs (hard disk drive) and SSDs (solid state drive), are used to store and transfer data. The motherboard is the main circuit board inside a PC. It is used to connect all components of a computer to the CPU so it can implement commands. The power supply is the component that provides electricity to power the PC.  Con​te​nt was c reat᠎ed ᠎wi th GSA Con​tent G᠎enerator Demov er​si᠎on᠎.

Furthermore, with ICP, transactions can be completed in less than a second, and at a low cost. According to the creators, the project enables users to opt out of centralized services and commercial cloud services. The fundamental unique feature behind ICP in their application of decentralized technology to the Internet. The project seeks to return power to developers and ordinary users of the Internet space, enlisting the support of those who host and participate in the network. The purpose of Internet Computer is to extend the current public Internet by introducing Chain Key Technology, a set of cryptographic protocols that consists of several components, namely: Threshold Relay (a consensus model), Non-Interactive Distributed Key Generation or NI-DKG, Network Nervous System or NNS (an on-chain governance system), and decentralized identity a.k.a. Chain Key Technology is the scientific breakthrough that powers Internet Computer, which makes it possible to add new nodes, form subnets, implement scaling; replace defective nodes; restore subnets; update the Internet Computer Protocol, its features, and fix bugs. This c on​tent was c re​ated ​by G᠎SA C ontent Generator  Demov​ersi᠎on .

SRAM chips, so Tramiel decided these should be used in the new computer. The result was arguably closer to the PET or TOI computers than to Yannes' prototype, albeit with a 22-column VIC chip instead of the custom chips designed for the more ambitious computers. As the amount of memory on the VIC-20's system board was very small even for 1981 standards, the design team could get away with using more expensive SRAM due to its lower power consumption, heat output, and less supporting circuitry. 3× 2114 (the 1024 × 4 bits) chips. While newer PETs had the upgraded BASIC 4.0, which had disk commands and improved garbage collection, the VIC-20 reverted to the 8 KB BASIC 2.0 used on earlier PETs as part of another of the design team's goals, which was limiting the system ROMs to only 20 KB. Since Commodore's BASIC had been designed for the PET which had only limited audiovisual capabilities, there were no dedicated sound or graphics features, thus VIC-20 programmers had to use large numbers of POKE and PEEK statements for this.

This produces more realistic shading and seems to better capture the 'ambience' of an indoor scene. A classic example is a way that shadows 'hug' the corners of rooms. The optical basis of the simulation is that some diffused light from a given point on a given surface is reflected in a large spectrum of directions and illuminates the area around it. The simulation technique may vary in complexity. Many renderings have a very rough estimate of radiosity, simply illuminating an entire scene very slightly with a factor known as ambiance. However, when advanced radiosity estimation is coupled with a high quality ray tracing algorithm, images may exhibit convincing realism, particularly for indoor scenes. In advanced radiosity simulation, recursive, finite-element algorithms 'bounce' light back and forth between surfaces in the model, until some recursion limit is reached. The colouring of one surface in this way influences the colouring of a neighbouring surface, and vice versa.

As microprocessors and semiconductor memory became less expensive, microcomputers grew cheaper and easier to use. Increasingly inexpensive logic chips such as the 7400 series allowed cheap dedicated circuitry for improved user interfaces such as keyboard input, instead of simply a row of switches to toggle bits one at a time. Use of audio cassettes for inexpensive data storage replaced manual re-entry of a program every time the device was powered on. Large cheap arrays of silicon logic gates in the form of read-only memory and EPROMs allowed utility programs and self-booting kernels to be stored within microcomputers. These stored programs could automatically load further more complex software from external storage devices without user intervention, to form an inexpensive turnkey system that does not require a computer expert to understand or to use the device. Random-access memory became cheap enough to afford dedicating approximately 1-2 kilobytes of memory to a video display controller frame buffer, for a 40x25 or 80x25 text display or blocky color graphics on a common household television.