Sunday, October 28, 2018

Components of a Computer System | Computer Basics

COMPONENTS OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM

A Computer System consists of following units:

  1. computer Hardware
  2. computer Software
  3. computer User




Computer Hardware 

The electronic and mechanical components that make up a computer are called Hardware. All computer systems contain four types of hardware components:




  • Input devices
  • Output devices
  • Computer processor
  • Secondary storage devices


    Computer Software:


    Software is a series of instructions that tell the hardware how to perform tasks. Without software, hardware is useless. Hardware needs the instructions provided by software to into two parts i.e. System software and Application software.


    Computer User 


    The person who communicates with a computer or uses the information it generates is called a User.

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