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    A computer system has two main components - hardware and software. The hardware refers to the physical parts of the computer like the CPU, memory, and input/output devices. The software refers to the programs that operate the computer, and can be categorized as system software or application software. A computer system takes inputs through devices like a keyboard, mouse, or scanner, processes the data in the central processing unit, and produces outputs via devices such as monitors, printers, or speakers.

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    A computer system has two main components - hardware and software. The hardware refers to the physical parts of the computer like the CPU, memory, and input/output devices. The software refers to the programs that operate the computer, and can be categorized as system software or application software. A computer system takes inputs through devices like a keyboard, mouse, or scanner, processes the data in the central processing unit, and produces outputs via devices such as monitors, printers, or speakers.

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    A computer system has two main components - hardware and software. The hardware refers to the physical parts of the computer like the CPU, memory, and input/output devices. The software refers to the programs that operate the computer, and can be categorized as system software or application software. A computer system takes inputs through devices like a keyboard, mouse, or scanner, processes the data in the central processing unit, and produces outputs via devices such as monitors, printers, or speakers.

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    The key takeaways are that a computer system has hardware and software components. The hardware includes physical parts like the CPU, memory and input/output devices. The software includes programs like operating systems and applications.

    The main components of a computer system are the input unit, central processing unit (CPU), memory unit and output unit.

    The CPU performs all data processing operations in a computer. It controls other parts of the computer and has components like the control unit and arithmetic logic unit (ALU) to carry out instructions.

    Components of a Computer

    System

    COMPUTER SYSTEM

    A computer system is one that is able to take a set of


    inputs, process them and create a set of outputs.
    Computer system have two parts:
    COMPUTER
    SYSTEM

    HARDWAR
    E

    SOFTWARE

    SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE


    Software
    Software refers to the programs required to operate a computer.
    For example, DOS (disk operating system), basic, Cobol, Database,
    Accounting software etc. are all software.
    Software are broadly classified into the following two types:
    1. System software
    2. Application software
    Hardware
    Hardware refers to any physical component of computer.
    For example, CPU, monitor (VDU), keyboard, hard disk, floppy
    disk, printer etc. are physical components and, thus, are all
    hardware

    ARCHITECTURE OF A
    COMPUTER SYSTEM

    COMPONENTS OF COMPUTER
    SYSTEM
    A computer system has the following main components:
    Input Unit
    Central Processing Unit (CPU)
    Memory Unit
    Output Unit

    INPUT DEVICES

    Following are few of the important input devices which are used in a
    computer:
    Keyboard
    Mouse
    Joy stick
    Light pen
    Track ball
    Scanner
    Microphone
    Magnetic ink card reader(MICR)
    Optical character reader(OCR)
    Bar code reader
    Optical mark reader(OMR)

    CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT


    CPU consists of the following features:
    CPU is considered as the brain of the computer.
    CPU performs all types of data processing operations.
    It stores data, intermediate results and instructions(program).
    It controls the operation of all parts of computer.
    CPU has following three components.
    Memory or Storage Unit
    Control Unit
    ALU(Arithmetic Logic Unit)

    MEMORY UNIT
    Memory is primarily of three types
    Primary Memory/Main Memory
    Secondary Memory
    Cache Memory

    PRIMARY MEMORY

    Primary memory holds only those data and instructions on


    which computer is currently working.
    It is generally made up of semiconductor device.
    These memories are not as fast as registers.
    The data and instruction required to be processed reside in
    main memory.
    It is divided into two subcategories RAM and ROM.

    SECONDARY MEMORY

    This type of memory is also known as external memory or


    non-volatile.
    It is slower than main memory.
    These are used for storing data/Information permanently.
    CPU directly does not access these memories instead they are
    accessed via input-output routines.
    Contents of secondary memories are first transferred to main
    memory, and then CPU can access it.
    For example : disk, CD-ROM, DVD etc.

    CACHE MEMORY

    Cache memory is a very high speed semiconductor memory


    which can speed up CPU.
    It acts as a buffer between the CPU and main memory.
    It is used to hold those parts of data and program which are
    most frequently used by CPU.
    The parts of data and programs are transferred from disk to
    cache memory by operating system, from where CPU can
    access them.

    OUTPUT DEVICE
    Following are few of the important output devices
    which are used in a computer.
    Speaker
    Monitors
    Graphic Plotter
    Printer
    Headphone
    Data projector

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