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Information Technology
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General term that describes any technology that helps to produce, mainipulate, store, communicate or disseminate information.
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Communications Technology
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Electromagnetic devices & systems for communicationg over long distances.
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Network
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Communications system connecting 2 or more computers - internet is the largest.
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Cyberspace
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Encompasses the online world & the internet and the whole wired & wireless world of communications.
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Internet
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The mother of all networks - worldwide computer network that connects hundreds of thousands of networks - link educaiton, communications, military, nonprofit and individuals.
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World Wide Web
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Multimedia part of the Inet - servers that support specially formatted docs in multimedia form.
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Supercomputer
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High capacity machines with 1000's of processors that can perform > trillions of calcs p/sectond. 500,000 - 350 million.
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Mainframe
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Water or air cooled computers $5,000-5 million sm/med/large - only type available until late 1960's
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Terminal
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Has a display and a keyboard - can input and output but cannot process - hooked to a mainframe
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Workstation
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Expensive powerful pcs - used for complex, scientific mathematical calc, CADs, etc.
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