CS100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: System On A Chip, Booting, Nonprofit Organization
17 Aug 2018
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Module 1. 1 hardware components: the physical equipment and devices that a computer is made of, the cpu, primary memory and secondary storage, peripherals. Include sd cards and usb sticks: faster than hard drives. Increasingly popular trend driven by mobile computers: when the computer chips for several different hardware components are combines together into a single chip, system on a chip (soc, decreases size, increases speed, and reduces power consumption. Module 1. 2 software and operating systems: software the programs that run on the hardware, application deisgned to interact with users, system designed to work in the background and operate the computer. Applications: usually built for a specific machine and operating system, vast majority of an application is made up of instructions, cpu instructions, data. System programs: work in background, services system program designed ot work without any user intervention, device drive facilitates communication between a peripheral and the operating system.
