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| (AGP) Accelerated Graphics Port |
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| An environment or program supported by a computers opperating system |
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| American Standard Code for Informational Interchange- This code enables the transfer of data across various machines and environments, nearly all computers support it |
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| "0" or "1"- Since a computer simply interprets voltage, binary numbers represent either an on state (1) or an off state (0) |
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| One or a single binary number |
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| The collection of wires in which data is transmitted from one location to another within a computer. |
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Eight binarys numbers together ie:
in binary the # 152= 10011000 |
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Eight binarys numbers together ie:
in binary the # 152= 10011000 |
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Controls the motherboard functions!!!!
A group of integrated circuits on the motherboard that performs one or more functions. |
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the speed in which a computer can execute instructios it recieves. The clock speed regulates precessing to harmonize component functioning. Clock speed is expressed in hertz (Hz).
A 3 GHz CPU is capable of exectuing 3 billion instructions per sond. |
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| A device that can make calculations faster and more accurately than humans |
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| Central Processing Unit- The brain of the computer, interprets and executes instructions from a command or program. |
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| A printed circuit board that can be inserted into a computer to contribute additional utility. |
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| A collection of data created in a certain program and saved under a filename |
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| the name in which you save a file under in a computers memory |
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| A device used to recieve the transmission of data from external sources |
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| (Industry Standard Achitecture) Older standard that occupied the black slot on the motherboard, tied to 16-bit structures, became obsolete on the rise of 32-bit computing systems. |
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| Large computer capable of supporting hundreds to thousands of users at the same time. |
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| originally served as "dummy" terminal for mainframe comps. You could observe and access the system in play but it had no discrete funtioning. |
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| Capable of supporting hundreds of users at the same time. Smaller version of the mainframe. got its name from the integration of transistors |
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| The main circuitboard of a PC. Contains circuitry to sychronize componets such as the CPU, keyboard and monitor. Auxilary slots may be present for the incorpoation of additional cicuitry or expansion cards. |
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Four binary digits together
ie: 0110 |
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| Operating System- Officiate fundamental tasks such as recognizing keyboard input, transmittig images for display, keeping record of files on hard disk. PC/Windows-Apple/Mac-Linux |
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| Utilized for the display of the info the computer prcesses ie: Monitors and Printers |
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| Multiple wires, enabling transmission of more than one bit at a time |
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| Peripheral Component Interconnect- White slot on the motherboard, support 32-bit organizations and interface. |
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| PC- a self contained computing device offering all necessary input, output, and display device utilities to a single end user. |
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| Random Access Memory- Holds Data when power is on- Volatile to power, if power goes out you lose file if its not saved. |
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| Read Only Memory- Holds data when power is off- Non Volatile to power |
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uses a single wire to transmit data individually by bit. one bit at a time.
USB cable IEEE*1394-Firewire |
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| Can perform an extremely high number of instructions per second. Built to do one thing extremely well. |
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| the size of a bus-indicator of the maximum quatity of data a bus can communicate at one time. 16-bit bus can accomdate 16 bits of data- 32-bit bus can accomodate 32 bits of data |
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| word is used to describe loger strips of bits. ie: 2 bytes constitutes a 16-bit word; 4 bytes, a 32 bit word. |
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