Saturday, 23 July 2011

PARTS OF HARDWARE

THE PROCESSOR, more formally known as the central processing unit(CPU), has the electronic circuitry that manipulates input data into the information as required. The central processing unit actually executes comuter instructions.

MEMORY, form which the CPU fetches the instructions and data is called main memory. It is also called as primary memory and is volatile in nature.

OUTPUT DEVICES,show the rpocessed data-information-the result of processing. The devices are normally a monitor and printers.

STORAGE,usually means seondary storage, which stores data and programs. Here the data and rpograms are permanently stored for future use.
     The Hardware devices attached to the computer are called peripheral equipment. PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT includes all input, output and secondary storage devices.

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