The Computer

Basic information About Computer

Computer

Computer is a programmable machine. The two principal characteristics of a computer are:

• It responds to a specific set of instructions in a well-defined manner. 
• It can execute a prerecorded list of instructions (a program).

 

Modern computers are electronic and digital. The actual machinery -- wires, transistors, and circuits -- is called hardware; the instructions and data are called software.

All general-purpose computers require the following hardware components:

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