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Hardware
What is ... ?
Is the physical part of the computer. All the power supplies, circuits, nuts and bolts. As opposed to "software".
Storing information
- All boils down to zeros and ones!
- Main Memory (Ram) (rom?) usually volatile
- Secondary Memory
- Abbreviations: KB,MB,GB,TB - s,ms,us,ns
- Codes: ascii
- Redundancy, Error-Detection, Error Correction
- How much memory does it take?
How does the computer work?
- The processor
- RISC x CISC
- Reduced Instruction Set Computers
- Complex Instruction Set Computers
- Data and Address Busses
- Machine language and instruction codes
- Clock