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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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A personal computer is basically just a really fancy calculator.
A calculator is just a very basic computer.?
Calculators calculate while computers can be programmed with new instructions. Fancy calculators that can be programmed though, as you say, are basic computers. Meanwhile calculators that run BASIC are BASIC computers.