IC3 Moudule 1
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- operations include adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers.
- arithmetic
- the "father" of computers
- Charles Babbage
- early computers were sensitive to this
- temperature
- when a computer decides that one number is greater than another number
- logical comparison of values
- a computer used at home or at the office by one person
- microcomputer (or) personal computer (or) desktop computer
- personal digital assistant
- PDA
- the combination of parts that work together in a computer
- system
- tangible physical equipment in a computer system
- hardware
- intangible set of instructions that tells the computer what to do
- software
- facts or information entered into a computer to be processed
- data
- oversees the orderly transfer of data within data communications
- protocols
- this carries the message in data communications
- channels
- one of the most utilized types of data communications in the business world
- network
- allows outside organizations to access internal information systems of an organization
- extranet
- major advantages of using an intranet
- reliability and security