Monday, October 7, 2013

Difference Between Analog computers and digital computers


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Analog computers and digital computers: computers are mainly of two types analog and digital. Analog computer processes the physical values (data) like temp, pressure etc and digital computers mainly processes mainly numeric and alphanumeric data. Followings are the main differences between these two types of computers.

Analog computer
Digital computer
1
Process data inputs of continuous form
Types like pressure, temperature etc.
Process data inputs of letters or number types like transactions of day to day work of business.
2
Data forms a analog waveform
Data forms a digital waveform like on/off or
High/low ( 0/1)
3
Used in engineering and scientific
Applications like controlling the process
Of any plant

Most suitable for business applications like transactions processing and MIS (management
Information systems)

4
These computers offer low cost solutions
For physical data measurement and
Processing

These computers offers tremendous amount of features and applications for business, entertainments and other general purpose work.

5
These computers are less accurate and provide very limited capacity for storage of data and information.

These computers highly accurate and provide very high amount of data and information storage capacity.

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