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32 Cards in this Set
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This measures the clock speed of a chip or motherboard?
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Crystal
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Who introduced the first pipeline?
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RISC
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Older processors didnt use these which made you wait for the entire process to comnplete before the second instruction.
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Pipelines
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The chip uses this as a workspace to process the data it is working with?
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The Register
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This handles arithmetic operations through integers, including the Boolean algebra. AND NOT OR
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(ALU) Arithmetic Logic Unit
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This handles numbers & irrational numbers
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(FPU) Floating Point Unit
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This takes huge chunks of data and processes them quickly.
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Vector Pocessing Unit
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The CPU receives 2 commands.
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INstructions & Program Codes
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What is the program code?
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Software functionality
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What are instructions?
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Basic to complex commands including Addition, Subtraction, & multiplicatioin
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What does CISC stand for?
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Complex Instructions Set Computer
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What does RISC stand for?
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Reduced Instructions Set computer
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What was the first commercial processor by IBM
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8086
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Most computers today have what 2 technologies?
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CISC & RISC
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The Pentium 4 was made by who?
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CISC
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Another name for the Front End?
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Data Manager
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What does the Back End do?
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Crunches numbers by Rapid Execution Engine
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This allows fo r a single processor to act as 2 processors in a single physical unit
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Hyper Threading
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The 4 elements of a processor.
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Architecture, Cache, Clock Speed, and Front Side Bus
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Floating Point UNits are good for what?
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graphics, and audio
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This offers a visual way of interacting with appliations on a computer.
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GUI`
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The first digital computer later replaced by the ENIAC for war stats
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Harvard Mark I
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This process was used to analyse human behavior?
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Game Theory
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Digital computer used for war
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ENIAC
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Calculator descendant of the ENIAC
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EDVAC
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First stored computer programmed computer used at cambridge`
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EDSAC
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Build by babbage and the computer was never build do to parts
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Analytical Engine
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Build by babbage used for mathmatical tables.
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Difference Engine
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The purely textural means of interacting with a computer
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CLI
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A UNIT OF MEASUREMENT expressed in a millionth of a meter
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mcron
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The outer ring of electrons of an atom. these can be loose or tight bon depending on the conductive properties of the materiAL
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Valence Electrons
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a table used to show how a long circuit output respods to various combinations of inputs using logic 1 for true 0 for false and the listed ipouts are on the left and the outputs are on the right
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truth table
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