BTM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Application Software, Hard Disk Drive, Microcomputer
29 May 2020
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Key terms: analytical graphics (p. 160) also called business graphics; graphical forms that make numeric data easier to analyze than it is when organized as rows and columns of numbers. The principal examples of analytical graphics are bar charts, line graphs, and pie charts. Application software consists of most of the software you are familiar with and use on a daily basis. (compare system software. : booting (p. 116) loading an operating system into a computer"s main memory. The programs responsible for booting are stored permanently in the computer"s electronic circuitry. When you turn on the machine, programs called diagnostic routines test the main memory, the central processing unit, and other: parts of the system to make sure they are running properly. Next, bios (basic input/output system) programs are copied to main memory and help the computer interpret keyboard characters or transmit characters to the display screen or to a disk.
