Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Some information about Computer

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1)      Register is a Temporary storage unit within the CPU having dedicated or general purpose use

2)      Terminal is a Point at which data may leave or enter the computer

3)      The memory of a computer is commonly expressed in terms of Kilobytes or Megabytes. A byte is made up of a byte consist of 8 bits- 8 binary digits

4)      The computer device primarily used to provide hard copy is the Line Printer

5)      The unit of hardware, which an operator uses to monitor computer processing, is the Console

6)      Micro Computer is a stored programmed machine

7)      First Generation computer systems used Vacuum Tubes

8)      Transistors are associated with Second Generation Computer system

9)      Charles Babbage invented Difference Engine

10)  Pascal was the inventor of Mechanical calculator for adding numbers

11)  The most widely used commercial programming computer language is Cobol( Common Business Oriented Language)
12)  The brain of computer is CPU(Central Processing Unit)

13)  In Computer Language, one kilobyte equals 1024 bytes
14)  In Computer Language, one megabyte equals 1024 kilobytes

15)  In Computer Language, one Gigabyte equals to 1024 megabytes

16)  In Computer Language, one Terabyte equals to 1024 gigabytes

17)  MS- DOS is the name of a system software

18)  A decimal equivalent of m second is 0.000001 sec

19)  A temporary storage area, attached to the CPU, for I/O operations is Buffer
20)  ROM is composed of Micro- Processors

21)  A dot matrix  printer is an output device only
22)  A term associated with the comparison of processing speed is MIPS
23)  The maximum size of a memory addressed by 12 bits is 4K bytes

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