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    This document discusses the components of a computer system including hardware and software. It defines hardware as the physical components of a computer system, both external like a monitor and keyboard, and internal like the CPU. Software is defined as the programs that control the computer system, including operating systems, application software, and system software. The document also describes the difference between hardware and software, with hardware being the physical devices that make up the computer, while software provides instructions to tell the hardware how to operate. It briefly discusses the difference between analog and digital data, with analog being continuously varying and digital being discrete binary values of 0s and 1s.

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    This document discusses the components of a computer system including hardware and software. It defines hardware as the physical components of a computer system, both external like a monitor and keyboard, and internal like the CPU. Software is defined as the programs that control the computer system, including operating systems, application software, and system software. The document also describes the difference between hardware and software, with hardware being the physical devices that make up the computer, while software provides instructions to tell the hardware how to operate. It briefly discusses the difference between analog and digital data, with analog being continuously varying and digital being discrete binary values of 0s and 1s.

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    This document discusses the components of a computer system including hardware and software. It defines hardware as the physical components of a computer system, both external like a monitor and keyboard, and internal like the CPU. Software is defined as the programs that control the computer system, including operating systems, application software, and system software. The document also describes the difference between hardware and software, with hardware being the physical devices that make up the computer, while software provides instructions to tell the hardware how to operate. It briefly discusses the difference between analog and digital data, with analog being continuously varying and digital being discrete binary values of 0s and 1s.

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    Section 1:

    Types and Components of Computer Systems

    1.1 Hardware and software


    Machine that processes data.

    Programmable
    machine

    What is computer ??
    Computer system consist of:
    Can a computer run without hardware?
    Can a computer run without software?
    •Hardware
    • Define: is the physical components that make up a computer system
    Hardware

    External Internal
    •Software
    • Define: programs that controls the computer systems

    software can be applied to a wide variety of tasks.


    To fulfil users’ general needs The programs that allow the
    hardware to run properly

    Application System
    Operating systems
    Windows, Unix, Linus

    software
    MS Office, Adobe
    Photoshop, browser, etc.
    software
    Compiler, linker, device driver
    Utility software
    Scan Disk, Norton Disk Doctor
    Describe the difference between Hardware and Software

    Physical device Instructions that tell a computer


    → That make up computer or hardware how to operate
    →Exists as ideas, concepts and
    symbols.
    → programs that run on
    computer
    Analogue VS Digital Data
    • Analogue data

    • Data is constantly varying


    • No discrete value
    • Example: height of mercury
    in thermometer to
    represent temperature

    ADC
    • Digital data DAC
    • Discrete data
    • Base 2
    • Made up from binary value:
    0 and 1

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