| A | B |
|---|
| Bandwidth | the amount of information that can be sent or received through a computer or network connection in 1 sec. |
| ENIAC | Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator. 1st Manframe computer used by the miltary |
| Atanasoff | is credited with the patent of the first computer |
| Serial | moves 1 bit of information at a time |
| device uses a lot of power and gives off a lot of heat | Vacuum tube |
| A law that states that the number of transistors that can fit on an integrated circuit chip | Moore's Law |
| first operating system for the personal computer | DOS |
| A generic PC | a white-box system |
| Parallel | moves 8 bits of data at a time |
| Hertz | cycles per second. |
| Kilo | 1,000 |
| Giga | 1 million |
| Hex | Base16 |
| Tera | 1 trillion |
| von Neumann | designed a computer model consisting of 3 parts (RAM, Control Unit, and ALU) |
| AMD | Major CPU manufacturing company |
