2 Fundamentals of Computer Hardware.pptVIP

Unit 2 Fundamentals of Computer Hardware Organization of Computer System Components A computer is a fast and accurate symbol manipulating system that is organized to accept, store, and process data and produce output results under the direction of a stored program of instructions. 计算机是一种可用于接收、存储和处理数据，并产生输出结果的快速、精确的符号加工系统，由存储的程序指令控制工作。 This section explains why a computer is a system and how a computer system is organized. 本节介绍为什么计算机是一个系统、以及计算机系统是如何构成的。 A computer system combines two basic parts: hardware and software. As shown in Fig.2-2, some input devices allow direct human/