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Flashcards by lisawinkler10, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by lisawinkler10
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| Question | Answer |
| A computer | An electronic, programmable data processing machine |
| A system | A collection of parts that work together for some defined purpose |
| A computer system | A collection of hardware and software that works together to achieve some data processing task |
| Input and Output Device | A piece of hardware that is used to enter raw data into a computer or device and a piece of hardware used to communicate a result of data processing |
| A system boundary | A boundary that separates a system from the outside world (often called user interfaces) |
| Hardware | The physical components of a computer system - anything that can be seen or touched |
| Boot sequence | A sequence of processes that contains all the information and instructions to get the computer up and running (boot loader starts this sequence) |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit carries out all the processing in a computer by fetching, decoding and executing data stored in memory |
| Software | A collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling the computer what to do and how to do it |
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