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| American Standard Code for information interchange. the number system that personal coputers use to represent character data |
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| a field size property that stoores whole numbers from 0-255 in one byte |
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| 1,048,576 bytes about one million bytes |
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| 1,024 gb or oone trillion bytes |
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| one million cycles per second |
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| one billion cycles per second |
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| The main circuit of the computer |
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| chips on a card plugged into the motherboard temporarily holds programs and data while the coputer is turned on |
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| special high speed memory chips on the mmotherboard or cpu that stores frequently accessed and recently accessed data ans commands |
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| a silcon chip located on the motherboard that is responsible for executing instructions to process data |
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| space on the the coputer storage devices that simulates additional ram |
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| 1,073,741,824 bytes or about one billion bytes |
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