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| AMERICAN STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE(ASCII) |
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| THE MOST POPULAR SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION |
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| ARITHMETIC/LOGIC UNIT(ALU) |
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| PERFORMS ARITHMETIC COMPUTATIONS AND LOGICAL OPERATIONS |
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| ANOTHER WORD FOR CHARATER;GENERALLY REPRESENTED BY 8 BITS |
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| USED TO INCREASE THE SPEED OF PROCESSING CYCLE |
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| CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU) |
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| ALSO KNOWN AS THE MICROPROCESSOR;THE BRAIN OF THE COMPUTER |
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| THAT PART OF THE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT THAT CORRDINATES ALL CPU ACTIVITES |
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| A DECIVE THAT CONTROLS THE TRANSFER OF DATA FROM THE COMUTER TO A PERIPHERAL DECIEVE AND VICE-VERSA |
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| IS A STEP BY STEP PROCESS |
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| EXTENDED BINARY CODED DECIMAL INTERCHARGE |
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| THIS CODE IS MOSTLY USED IN VERY LARGE COMPUTERS |
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| IS THE AMOUNT OF THE TIME IT TAKES TO RETRIEVE THE INSTRUCTION AND COMPLETE THE COMMAND |
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| ALSO REFFERED TO AS RAM OR PRIMARY MEMORY |
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| FOUND ON THE MOTHERBOARD ALSO THOUGHT OF AS A "SHORTTERM" OR "LONGTERM" |
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| A SEVICE THAT ALLOWS ONE COMPUTER TO TALK TO ANOTHER |
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| THE METAL AND PLASTIC CASE THAT HOUSES THE MAIN SYSTEM COMPONENTS OF THE COMPUTER |
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| RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY(RAM) |
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| MEMORY ON A MOTHERBOARD KNOWN AS SHORT TERM AND DATD,INFORMATION AND PROGRAM INSTRUCTIONS ARE STORED TEMPORILY ON RAM CHIPS |
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| PERMANENT COMPUTER STORAGE;INSTRUCTIONS ARE BURNED ONTO CHIPS BY THE MANUFACTURER |
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