End of the Chapter

This ends the general overview of computer systems.

For now, you may wish to review the following. Click on a subject that interests you to go to where it was discussed.

 

• hardware Hardware and software.
• hardware components Major hardware components of a computer system
• memory types Types of memory
• hard disk Characteristics of a hard disk.
• I/O devices I/O devices
• program types Two categories of programs
• operating system The operating system.
• starting a program How programs start running.

The next chapter will discuss analog and binary signals and why binary signals are important in computer systems.