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14 Cards in this Set
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What CPU stand for?
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Central Processing Unit
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DRAM stands for?
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Dynamic Random Access Memory
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What's inside the CPU?
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The ALU
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What does ALU stand for?
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Arithmetic Logic Unit
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What does the Hard Drive Contain?
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All you files; Space incase DRAM is full
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What has an input/output?
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o Keyboard
o Mouse o Monitor o Printer o Network |
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What is your Primary Storage?
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your memory aka DRAM
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What is your Secondary Storage?
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Your Hard Drive; cd's tapes, dvds
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What is Batch Processing?
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send in jobs, they would get scheduled, and you would get your results sent back at some later time.
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What is Machine Code?
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Instructions (in 1’s and 0’s) that the machine can understand directly
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What is Assembly Language?
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human readable translation of the machine code
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What is an Assembler?
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a program that translates Assembly language to machine code
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What are High-Level Languages?
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a language that is machine-independent that provides programmers a much easier way to program
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What is a compiler?
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translates, optimize HighLevelLangauge → assembly
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