22/10/2007 11:28 Page 320 CASE EXAMPLE Lenovo computers: East meets West In May 2005‚ the world’s thirteenth largest personal computer company‚ Lenovo‚ took over the world’s third largest personal computer business‚ IBM’s PC division. Lenovo‚ at that time based wholly in China‚ was paying $1.75bn (A1.4bn‚ £1bn) to control a business that operated all over the world and had effectively invented the personal computer industry back in 1981. Michael Dell‚ the creator of the world’s
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effects of caffeine on the body differ from one person to another. The most common source of Caffeine is the Coffee. In this informative speech you will learn about ‚ What is caffeine? What are the benefits we get from caffeine and what are the disadvantages when taking too much of it. Caffeine is a bitter‚ white crystalline xanthine alkaloid and a stimulant drug. Caffeine is found in varying quantities in the seeds‚ leaves‚ and fruit of some plants‚ where it acts as a natural pesticide that paralyzes
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Grace Loraine M. Borres BSCOE II-3 Assignment No. 1 An internal bus serves as the communication highway of the motherboard. It links the different parts of the computer to the CPU and the main memory. Its primary task is to send data and instructions to the different parts within the motherboard‚ including the external bus. The external type of motherboard bus‚ which is also known as the expansion bus‚ serves as the interface for peripheral devices like hard disks‚ CD-ROM drives‚ and flash
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erUNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS Structure 1.1 1.2 1.3 Introduction Objectives Introduction to Computers Why Computer? Evolution of Computers 1.3.1 The First Computer 1.3.2 Some Well Known Early Computers 1.3.3 Computer Generations 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Components of a Computer Hardware vs Software System vs Applications Software Bits and Bytes Input and Output Devices RAM/ROM 1.10 Secondary Storage Devices 1.11 Summary 1.12 Answers to SAQs 1.1 INTRODUCTION This unit aims
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Operating System: An operating system (OS) is a set of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is a vital component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs require an operating system to function. Types: 1. Real-time A real-time operating system is a multitasking operating system that aims at executing real-time applications. Real-time operating systems often use specialized scheduling
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History of Computers Table of Contents Table of Contents . .2 Abstract . 3 Body of Research .4 - 6 Conclusion . 7 Bibliography ..8 Abstract This project explains the history of computers‚ starting from Howard Aiken’s Harvard Mark I to present day time. Although I have not gone over all of the models in my report‚ I have chosen those which I feel have had the greatest effect on the computer world. I will show how in just forty years‚ computers
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HISTORY OF COMPUTERS The abacus was an early aid for mathematical computations. Its only value is that it aids the memory of the human performing the calculation. A skilled abacus operator can work on addition and subtraction problems at the speed of a person equipped with a hand calculator. The abacus is often wrongly attributed to China. In fact‚ the oldest surviving abacus was used in 300 B.C. by the Babylonians. The abacus is still in use today‚ principally in the far east. A modern abacus consists
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Computer Crime Bryan J. Doe CJ375 Research Paper COMPUTER CRIME One of the newest areas of crime is what we call computer crime. The at least seeming anonymity of computer technologies may actually encourage some people who would not otherwise be tempted to commit crimes to do so using the Internet. They may simply believe that they will never be caught‚ or they may not think about being caught at all. They may simply find the lure of committing virtual crimes too psychologically appealing to
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Computer Simulation * A software program that runs on any computer that attempts to simulate some phenomenon based on a scientist’s conceptual and mathematical understanding of the given phenomenon. * The scientist’s conceptual understanding is reduced to an algorithmic or mathematical logic‚ which is then programmed in one of many programming languages (Fortran‚ C‚ C++‚ etc.) and compiled to produce a binary code that runs on a computer. * Have become a useful part of modeling
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Computer Architecture 1. Describe Von Neumann architecture and explain why it is important. The Von Neumann architecture explains the architecture of an electronic computer. It is attributed to be root of every electronic computer that has ever been made. According to Von Neumann architecture an electronic computer has Control Unit‚ Arithmetic Logic Unit‚ Memory & Input / Output Devices. The following diagram shows this architecture:- Memory: - Memory holds both
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