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| houses processor, memory, video and sound cards, network modem |
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| RAM (random access memory) |
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| primary (main) memory. Made up physically of transistors and capacitors. |
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| how is info stored in memory? |
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| they are converted to a string of zeros and ones in different ways, (characters converted via some standard such as ASCII, Unicode, etc). All info is translated by a set of instructions into this format and then translated. |
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| Each 0,1 when memory is stored is a bit |
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| 1 KB is approximately x bytes |
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| 1 MB is approximately x bytes |
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| 1 GB is approximately x bytes |
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| 1,000,000,000 bytes or about 500 pages of text |
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| The type of memory that is constantly refreshed or it will lose its contents |
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| SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic RAM) |
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| Designed to work with the CPU clock to work faster than DRAM |
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| DDR SDRAM (Double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM) |
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| Works twice as fast as SDRAM |
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| operating system software |
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| Controls the basic input/output and memory operations of the computer |
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| programs that work with the operating system to perform specific tasks |
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| the smaller the dot pitch the sharper the image |
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| number of pixels that can be displayed. usually higher resolution means a clearer image |
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