Thursday, February 12, 2009

Do you know what a Computer IS?

What is a computer?

A programmable machine. The two principal characteristics of a computer are:
# It responds to a specific set of instructions in a well-defined manner.

* It can execute a prerecorded list of instructions (a program).

Modern computers are electronic and digital. The actual machinery -- wires, transistors, and circuits -- is called hardware; the instructions and data are called software.


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