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kbriggss12 English 16 cards

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1dedicatedsomething which is designed for one particular purpose
2embedded systema computer system that forms part of an electronic device
3kernelthe lowest level of an operating system that controls the hardware
4HTMLhyper text mark-up language - a text based system for defining web pages
5PDFportable document format - a file standard that displays a document accurately on any computer platform
6computer architecturethe internal logical structure and organisation of the computer hardware
7CPUthe central processing unit of the computer containing the control unit, ALU and cache memory
8RAMRandom access memory - main memory of a computer that operates the system while it is in use
9cache memoryspecial high speed memory used by a computer
10flash memorysolid state memory used as a low cost secondary storage in portable devices and as removable memory
11secondary storagenon volatile storage used to store programs and files that need to be kept even when the power is not on
12purpose of a CPUto fetch the data, decode it and execute it
13ROMread only memory - this data cannot be overwritten
14dual corea CPU with multiple processors
15volatiledata is lost when there is no power
16Non-volatiledata is retained even when there is no power