ISYS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Presentation Program, Graphical User Interface, Application Software

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Mgmt Info Systems
• Course: ISYS 210
• Professor: Phinney Theresa

Document Summary

Isys chapter 1: moore"s law: computer processing power doubles every 18 months (includes internet size) Leader: buy newest technology available: example: amazon, fedex, follower: wait to see what works lose the edge. Business computing hardware: hardware what you can touch, software programs. Super computer all run linus operating systems. Mainframe big machines (banking industry, credit cards: amdahl (cid:373)ai(cid:374)fra(cid:373)e i(cid:374) the (cid:1005)97(cid:1004)"s. Midridge (cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:272)o(cid:373)puter (cid:894)was(cid:374)"t as (cid:271)ig as (cid:373)ai(cid:374)fra(cid:373)es(cid:895) servers. System software makes hardware work, collection of computer programs. *a&m has 2 mainframes one for ar/ap, other one in dallas (data storage) Operating systems computer programs that work together to manage hardware/software: file management, multi-tasking, memory management, disk management. Common business operating systems: microsoft windows, mac os, unix. Memory: virtual memory looks like there"s (cid:373)ore physi(cid:272)al (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory tha(cid:374) there really is, ram random access memory programs must reside in order to run.