CIS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Application Software, Voice Over Ip, Midrange Computer

• School: ASU
• Department: Computer Information Systems
• Course: CIS 105
• Professor: Matthew Mc Carthy

Document Summary

Definition of moore"s law: moore"s law refers to an observation made by intel co-founder. Gordon moore in 1965. he noticed that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since their invention. Ip telephony) is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of communications . System softwares load by themselves and are automatically there. no human interaction. Operating system: t he operating system (os) is the most important program that runs on a computer. every general-purpose computer must have an operating system to run other programs and applications . On the midterm: that might be too much. Which is better, being a leader or a follower? - it depends. File management- tell me where my files are (gui) Memory management- think of it as water management- you could have a whole river but. Multitasking- having multiple applications run at once.