Central processor unit

Movement of information in a computer could be likened to a railway system. Carriers of information (bits or bytes) move together (like a train and wagons) from one location to another along electronic tracks. It is important that no two bits of information are mixed up, and therefore all the moves must be carefully synchronized with a clock. This situation resembles the movement of trains on a railway many trains use the same track but are not all in the same place at the same time. The railways run to a timetable. Similarly, information is moved around the computer under the control of the central processor unit (CPU). 

The central processor unit (CPU) that does the work... 

The speed of the computer system is generally cited in terms of the number of machine operations that are capable of occurring within a certain period of time. Many times this is listed as the number of cycles per second (hertz) that the central processor unit can operate at. 

Art produced by TLC (formed from the words chromatography and art ) Central processor unit... 

Microcomputers as we now know them, that is, compact stand-alone computers, came into being in the mid-1970 s with the introduction of microprocessor chips. These combined all of the components of a computer s central processor unit (CPU) on a single integrated circuit chip. 

If a picture appears on the screen, we can check the CPU (Central Processor Unit) board. The analyzer has three built-in self-testing functions ... 

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