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- 1What is a Operating SystemIs programs and application that run on a computing system
- 2What is the differnce between System Software and Apllication SoftwareSystem Software - Software that keeps PC running correctly
Apllication Software - peforms tasks beyond running the PC - 3What are the types of System SoftwareOperating System - provides an interface for user - hiding complexity of hardware
Utility Software - peforms operations required by System like file management
Libraries - pre - compiled functions and routines used by other programs
Translators - source code to machine code - assembler, - 4Examples of Application SoftwareOffice software
Games
Stock Control - 5What is the differnce between low and high level code?Low level code - intructions that are executed directly by CPU
High level code - intructions designed to be easier to understand but require a translator - 6Advantages and Disadvantages of low level codeAdv: Programs are faster + more efficient and have complete control over CPU
Disadv: Harder to read/ work with and hard to create complex programmes - 7Advantages and Disadvantages of highlevel codeAdv: Easier to work with and easy to dubug
Disadv: Programs are generally slower - 8What is a Compiler?Scans the entire Source code and produces a executeable file which can be ran directly by CPU
- 9What is a Interpreter?Translate the Source code line by line and executed directly from Interpreter
- 10What is a Half adder?Binary arithmatic
- 11What is a D - Type flip flop?Is a component that acts like memroy
It has a constant output until trigger is activated which is a leading edge - outout is now changed to match input - 12The rest is boolean algerbrado pratise questions
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- A level Computing Flashcards on 4.6, created by Matthew Soledolu on 01/06/2022.
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