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| Accelerated Graphics Port- designed to bypass the PCI bus |
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| enviroment supported by the underlying operating system of the computer |
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| American Standard for Code & Information Interchange- numbers that are associated with letters |
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| Interpreted as voltage; "switches" representing on(1) and off(0) |
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| collection of wires through which data is transmitted from one location to another |
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| 'B'; bitstreams of eight 1's & 0's |
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| group of integrated citcuits on the mother board; perform more than one function |
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| rate at which a CPU can execute instructions received |
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| programmable device able to store and respond to a set of instructions |
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| Central Processing Unit; also known as the brain of the computer |
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| printed circuit board that contributes additional utilities(video, sound, etc.) |
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| naming of a file within a program |
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| used to receive the transmission of data outside the device(keyboard) |
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| Industry Standard Architecture- older standard(occupied black spot on motherboard) |
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| large computer capable of supporting many users simultaneously(outdated) |
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| "dummy" terminal- provides no services of discrete function |
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| capable of supporting hundreds of users at the same time(smaller version of mainframe) |
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| main cicuit board of a PC(central processing unit, keyboard, monitor) |
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| grouping of 4 total bits(0101) |
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| Operating System- aka "toolbox" |
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| utilized for display of information(monitor, printer, etc.) |
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| multiple wires-->transmission of more than one bit at a time |
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| Peripheral Component Interconnect- cards that support 32-bit and more organizations(takes up the white slot in motherboard) |
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| an input or output device |
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| aka "PC"- self contained computing device |
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| within the computer; contains files |
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| Random Access Memory- individual bytes of memory accessed w/o infringing other bytes |
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| Read Only Memory- prerecorded data for basic functioning |
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| single wire to transmit data individually by bit(USB) |
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| large machine performing high number of instructions per second-does not support multiusers |
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