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Programmable

Updated: 04/26/2017 by Computer Hope

The ability of software or a hardware device to properly follow a set of coded instructions. For example, some keyboards have special keys on them that are programmed to open a web browser or e-mail client. All computers today are considered programmable, whereas early computing devices were only capable of performing certain calculations.

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