Base Commander Micro Computer System

teletype microcomputer system

micro computer control device

computer graphics display system

computer-driven colour graphic display

basic input output system [ BIOS ]

By arbitrary convention, computers, normally classified as mainframe, mini, or micro; telecommunications devices, including the voice and data switches that our telephone companies run on; and networking hardware are not called embedded systems.

The main reason they bought us was because it would allow them to take this mammoth system off their mainframe and process it on micro-computers.

Embedded systems are the computers used in larger systems to control equipment such as automobiles, home appliances, communication devices, control systems and office machines.

- for health: personal non-obtrusive systems that enable citizens to manage their well-being such as wearable or implantable monitoring devices with communication capabilities and autonomous systems for supporting a healthy state; emerging techniques such as molecular imaging for improved prevention and individualised medicine; health knowledge discovery and application in clinical practice; modelling and simulation of organ functions; micro- and nano-robotic devices for minimally invasive surgical and therapeutic applications; remote assistance and remote monitoring technologies for the chronically ill and for elderly people; comp ...[+++]uter aided detection and clinical decision support systems that lead to more reliable diagnosis and an improved workflow, eventually leading to disease specific expert systems taking an integral carecycle approach, and exploiting accumulated patient data, and model based disease knowledge through data mining, bioinformatics, and systems biology; enterprise IT systems leading to increased efficiency and reduced medical error in the hospital and in secondary care facilities;