Operating System – A Brief Introduction What is an Operating System? A computer requires both hardware and software to operate. It cannot operate solely on the hardware. However, a computer is a dumb machine. It cannot operate on its own. It requires human interaction (user) for its operation. However, a computer user cannot interact directly with the computer hardware. He/She requires some kind of interface to interact with the computer’s hardware....

Computer Peripherals Below are some of the devices that are attached externally to the computer, except keyboard and mouse, are called computer peripherals. The various computer peripheral devices are: Keyboard & Mouse Keyboard is an Input device used to input the data to the computer. Mouse is a pointing device used to select a particular option shown on the monitor Printer Printer is an output device used to take the print...

Components & Peripherals of Computer Introduction to Computer Components & Peripherals A computer consists of several physical components and each physical component is designated to perform one of the operations discussed in the previous section. These physical components of a computer are called computer hardware. The computer hardware device can be attached internally or externally to the computer. Devices connected internal are called the Primary components and connected external are called...

Basic Elements of Computer Hardware & Software Computer consists of two basic building blocks : Hardware and Software. hardware refers to the physical components or peripherals ( physical parts of a computer such as CPU , Mother Board , RAM , keyboard , Mouse , monitor , Optical disk drive , storage disk etc. all of which are physical objects that you can actually touch. Software is set of programs containing...

Computer Organization & OS: User perspective Introduction The computer is an electronic machine made with electronic devices. It accepts the raw data through input device processes it based on the set of instructions given (called programs) and produces the information as output on the output device . Computer hardware refers to the physical components or peripherals ( physical parts of a computer such as CPU , Mother Board , RAM ,...