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Key Definitions
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- 1A computerAn electronic, programmable data processing machine
- 2A systemA collection of parts that work together for some defined purpose
- 3A computer systemA collection of hardware and software that works together to achieve some data processing task
- 4Input and Output DeviceA piece of hardware that is used to enter raw data into a computer or device and a piece of hardware used to communicate a result of data processing
- 5A system boundaryA boundary that separates a system from the outside world (often called user interfaces)
- 6HardwareThe physical components of a computer system - anything that can be seen or touched
- 7Boot sequenceA sequence of processes that contains all the information and instructions to get the computer up and running (boot loader starts this sequence)
- 8CPUCentral Processing Unit carries out all
the processing in a computer by
fetching, decoding and executing data
stored in memory - 9SoftwareA collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling the computer what to do and how to do it
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