MIS 2000 Lecture 3: Intro-Chapter 3
7 Feb 2017
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Innovation and keeping up to date are becoming expectations of customers. Server farm: large numbers of servers organized into a. Servers: provide some service like processing email, process. Client computers: deskwork like word processing and spreadsheet. Must be fast which means they have multiple cpu"s, need a lot analysis. Has software that enables them to connect to a network. Has displays, input and output devices websites, share databases, process multiuser games, tech of memory and require large disk space. Have no or limited video displays, keyboards, etc. collection to coordinate activities and serve a large number of end users. Bytes: bits are grouped into 8-bit chunks called bytes. So if a computer holds 100 million bytes, you know that it can hold 100 million characters. Software be the same one to work together. Operating system: program that controls that computer"s resources. Clients and servers each need an operating system doesn"t have to. Application programs: programs, which make the computer useable.
