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Chapter 2 Keywords
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- 1Hardwarea physical component of a computer system
- 2Devicea hardware component of a computer system consisting of electronic components
- 3Output Devicea device used to communicate data or information from a computer system
- 4Storage devicea device used to store data onto a storage medium
- 5Input devicea device that allows data to be entered into a computer system
- 6Storage mediumthe medium on which data is stored
- 7Volatiledata is lost when there is no power
- 8Non-volatiledata remains when there is no power
- 9Softwareprograms which give instructions to the computer
- 10User interfacecommunication between the user and the computer system
- 11Utility softwaresoftware that performs some sort of maintenance on the computer sysrem
- 12Operating systemsoftware that manages the hardware within a computer system
- 13Custom-written softwaresoftware that is written especially to meet the requirements of a client
- 14Off-the-shelf softwaregeneral purpose software available to a large market
- 15Compilertranslates high-level programming language into an executable file in machine code
- 16Interpretertranslates high-level programming language into machine code, one line of source code at a time
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- A level ICT Flashcards on Chapter 2 Keywords, created by Leann McLeod on 05/01/2017.
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