Computers: Productive Tools In Our Lives
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Have you ever seen a computer in a store and said, "Whoa! What a chick!"? I
am sure you would have, if you were familiar with the new 16xCD-ROM and extra
wide SCSI-2 9.0 GB hard drive it features, or if you knew about the dual 225 MHz
Pentium pro MMX chips blazing up its performance. To tell you a ....
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.... does what his
master tells him to do, with the help of input devices like a keyboard or a
mouse. After all this so called sophisticated, next generation equipment, you
need some sort of software. Software is a set of instructions to the C.P.U. from
a source such as a floppy disk, a hard drive or a CD - ROM drive, in zillions of
1's and 0's. Each of these tiny little instructions makes up a bit. Then they
assemble to form a byte. Bytes make up a program, which you run to use the
compu ....
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