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Home Dictionary Name: cpuCPU
The central processing unit that part of the electronic circuitry of a computer in which the arithmetic and logical operations are performed on input data which are thereby converted to output data it is usually located on the mainboard or motherboard of a computer The CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached Most personal computers as of 1998 had only one CPU but some computers may have more than one CPU...
machine language
a set of instructions3 in a binary form that can be executed directly by the CPU of a computer without translation by a computer program...
motherboard
The board containing the main circuits of an electronic device especially computers The term is used primarily in microcomputer literature where it designates the board containing the main expansion bus and usually also the cpu On motherboards designed with an expansion bus often all of the circuits not contained on an expansion card are on the motherboard...
PC
A personal computer a computer2 designed for use by one person at a time contrasted with shared time computers such as mainframes and minicomputers which may be accessed by multiple users each operating from a different input device in the 1990s usually a terminal A personal computer typically uses a microprocessor for its CPU...
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