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Central Proessing Unit (CPU) |
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Brain of the computer. Place where every thing gets done |
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Enables you to expand your cxapabilites by adding componets. |
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Its what periferal devices perform |
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Its what periferal devices perform |
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Large computers that filled up entire rooms |
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Cirket board that covers most of the bottom of the system units |
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A crystal that tells the speed |
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a crystal that provides the system speed. |
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cubic feet per minute (CFM) |
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a rating system that rates how fast a fan can move |
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the measument of the fan noise. |
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the measument of the fan noise. |
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the measument of the fan noise. |
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a object that connects the CPU and the northridge |
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one billion cycles per second |
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a object that connects the CPU and the northridge |
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Did not have a clock chip |
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# of SIMM sticks that must go into a group |
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Shows up only in high end systems |
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very high speed type of clocked ramthat rns 400-533 mhz axcessing ram 4 times per clock cycle |
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implemations of fpm and edo technologys |
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small circut boards usualy about 4" long |
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special pert of herd rive that stores the programs |
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a ram that encorprated the clock chip |
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the process in witch the ram swaps out less used programs for the most used programes in the hard drive |
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