Myprogramminglab Chapter 1.2

3K means about 3 thousand bytes. How would you express two hundred million bytes?

200M

3K means about 3 thousand bytes. How would you express four trillion bytes?

4T

3K means about 3 thousand bytes. How would you express five billion bytes?

5G

In modern computer systems, a byte consists of

8 Bits

When a program runs on a computer, it is stored in

Main Memory

A bit is

a binary digit, like 0 or 1.

A byte in memory is identified by a unique number called its

address

When a program runs on a computer, the part of the computer that carries out the instructions is called the ?

central processing unit

Mice, trackpads, keyboards, scanners, joysticks are all examples of devices?

input

At each step of its operation, the input to a Central Processing Unit is?

instruction.

A binary digit

is zero or one.

When a program is not running, it is stored

on a disk.

Monitors, printers, status lights are all examples of devices?

output

Flash drives, CDs, external disks are all examples of storage (memory) devices?

secondary

RAM, random-access memory, is called that because

you can pick any two random locations and it will take the same time to access the data.