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    This document discusses the components and layers of a computer system. It describes the input and output devices like keyboards, mice, printers and monitors. It then explains the operating system manages storage in a hierarchy from fast but expensive primary storage like RAM to slower but cheaper secondary storage like hard drives and optical disks. Finally, it notes operating systems must represent different types of data like text, images, audio and more.

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    What Is A Computer

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    This document discusses the components and layers of a computer system. It describes the input and output devices like keyboards, mice, printers and monitors. It then explains the operating system manages storage in a hierarchy from fast but expensive primary storage like RAM to slower but cheaper secondary storage like hard drives and optical disks. Finally, it notes operating systems must represent different types of data like text, images, audio and more.

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    What is a Computer?

    Why Computers?
    In the Beginning
    “The Box”
    CRT Display CD-ROM Drive

    Floppy
    Disk
    Drive

    Keyboard

    Mouse
    bus

    Printer Disk
    controller
    Mouse Ports
    Keyboard
    Graphics
    Modem card Monitor

    CPU Speakers
    Sound
    card

    RAM
    Network
    card
    Computer
    OUTPUT DEVICES
    INPUT DEVICES
    OPERATING SYSTEM The Layers Of
    A System
    OVERVIEW
    Humans

    Program Interface

    User Programs

    O.S. Interface

    O.S.

    Hardware Interface/
    Privileged Instructions

    Disk/Tape/Memory
    OPERATING Storage
    SYSTEM OVERVIEW Hierarchy
    Very fast storage is very expensive. So the Operating System manages a hierarchy of storage
    devices in order to make the best use of resources. In fact, considerable effort goes into this
    support.

    Fast and Expensive

    Slow an Cheap
    Main Types of Primary Storage
    • Registers
    • Random access memory (RAM)
    • Cache memory
    • Read-only memory (ROM)
    • Flash memory
    Secondary Storage
    • Magnetic tape
    • Sequential access
    • Magnetic disks
    • Hard drives
    • Direct access
    • Magnetic diskettes
    Optical Storage Devices
    • Compact disk, read-only memory (CD-ROM)
    • Digital video disk (DVD)
    • Fluorescent multilayer disk (FMD-ROM)
    More Storage Options
    • Memory cards
    • Expandable storage devices
    DATA REPRESENTATION
    • Images
    • Tables,Text
    • Audio,Video
    • Trees ,Graphs
    • Arrays,Sparse matrices
    • Stacks,Linked Lists,Queues etc.

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