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Computing - Fundamentals of a computer system?
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- 1What is a computer system?A system is a collection of parts that work together for a common purpose?
- 2Importance of reliability in a system?Systems can depend on our lives like autopilot and therefore it is very important that they work.
- 3How can reliability be achieved in a computer system?By testing
- 4What is another way of making systems more reliable?Making them adhere to standards, and therefore is likely to be more successful and satisfy its users.
- 5What is a proprietary standard?A standard that is owned by a company, any software that runs under windows must handle data in a certain way.
- 6What is an industry standard?A standard that has been agreed across the computing industry, like the USB.
- 7What is a de facto standard?A standard that develops through common usage until they become the accepted way of making or doing something.
- 8What is an open standard?Open standards are standards that are publicly available, the software developed under them can be modified by users.
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