NOTABLE TERMINOLOGIES

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NOTABLE TERMINOLOGIES

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Digital Divide: The gap that exist between different people of the society because of access or no access to information technology.

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Sorting: The act of re-arranging of data or information into a desired order or form.

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File: A folder or a box for arranging document in a particular order

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Server: A computer program that manage access to a centralized resource or service in a network.

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Cold booting: Booting done through the hard disk or CD-ROM

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Warm booting: Booting done by restarting the computer without turning it off.

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Teleconferencing or teleseminar is a conference with participants in different location linked by telecommunication device.

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Video conferencing also called video teleconference is a conference that is linked by set of telecommunication device, this allows two or more locations to communicate simultaneously with video and audio output.

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Ergonomy is the study of interaction between the computer and human user.

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NOTABLE ANCRONYSM

Important:

Hypertext transfer protocol (http)

Hypertext markup language (HTML)

File Transfer protocol (FTP)

Universal resource locator (URL)

Universal serial bus (USB)

General packet radio service (GPRS)

General systems for mobile communications (GSM)

Disk Operating System (DOS)

Read only memory (ROM)

Random access memory (RAM)

Central processing unit (CPU)

Arithmetic logic unit (ALU)

Uninterrupted power supply (UPS)

Data base management system (DBMS)

Information & communication technology(ICT)

Internet service provider (ISP)

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Others:

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Joint photographic expert Group (JPEG)

Graphic Interchange format (GIF)

Java Archive (Jar)

Software Installation Script (SIS)

Android application package (Apk)

Audio video Interleave (Avi)

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Assignment

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Differentiate between computer and Computer system Using definitions ?

How many generations of computer do we have ?

List 3 characteristic feature of each generation ?

What are the two wares of the computer ?

System software is further divided into ?

Practice the various classification of computer ?