【管理信息系统课件】PartⅡ Technical Foundation of Information Systems.ppt

PartⅡ Technical Foundation of Information Systems The section will cover both the fundamental building blocks of today’s information systems, including hardware, software, database, telecommunication, and Internet, as well as the most important applications such as Electronic Businesses, ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning), Knowledge Management and DSS. PartⅡ Technical Foundation of Information Systems Session 7-10. Modern IT Architecture Session 11-12-13. Enterprise Information Systems Application Session 7-10. Modern IT Architecture Session 7. Desktop Systems (one computer) PC Hardware Software Systems Session8-9. Distributed Systems (many computer) Computer Networks and the Internet Distributed application and Client/Server The World Wide Web and e-commerce Session 10. Managing Data Resource Database technology Data Warehousing, OLAP, Data Mining Session 7. Desktop Systems COMPUTER COMPONENTS CPU & PRIMARY STORAGE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU) The CPU CPU = Central Processing Unit Instruction execution is automatic (tick) find memory address of next instruction (tick) retrieve instruction from memory (tick) decode the instruction (tick) fetch argument from memory if necessary (tick) execute instruction (tick) store result in memory if necessary Internal clock ticks very fast (e. g., 100MHZ = 100 million ticks per second) activities are synchronized to start on a clock tick some activities take more than one clock tick COMPUTER TIME Millisecond .001 second thousand 15min 40 sec Microsecond .001 millisecond million 11.6 days Nanosecond .001microsecond billion 31.7 years Picosecond .001 nanosecond trillion 31,700 years TYPES OF MEMORY RAM: Random Access Memory Dynamic: Changes thru processing Static: Remains constant (power on) ROM: Read Only Memory (preprogrammed) PROM: Program can be changed once EPROM: Erasable thru ultraviolet light EEPROM: Electrically erasable *