Principles of work of the Computer

The desktop personal computer


 Principles of work of the Computer
  • Bases of work of the personal computer
  • Binary system
  • Bats and Bit
  • Hexadecimal system
  • Units of measurements of great volumes of the information
  • Codings of symbols
  • Hardware and the software
  • Types of the COMPUTER
  • IBM-compatible
  • Computers Apple Macintosh
  • Workstations
  • Mainframes
  • Supercomputers
  • Network computers

    Kinds of the personal computer
  • The desktop personal computer
  • The portable personal computer
  • Classification of portable computers
  • Features of portable computers
  • Palmtop


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    The desktop personal computers supporting one workplace, make the most numerous group of personal computers, or the micro-computer. Before occurrence of portable personal computers of a word "desktop" and "personal" were synonyms. Desktop personal computers still name computers for a workplace or office computers (though now office personal computers name workstations is more often). The overwhelming majority of domestic computers also are desktop. Both those, and others have practically identical characteristics: 32-and 64-digit architecture and the organization of system, standardized equipment rooms and software apply.

    Companies - manufacturers offer set of various models of the desktop personal computers distinguished both on capacity, and under the price. The majority of desktop personal computers concern to two big groups: IBM-compatible personal computers and personal computer Apple Macintosh.Computers from these groups are not compatible with each other, i.e. in full or in part are not capable to use hardware and software products each other.

    The desktop personal computers focused on the broad audience of consumers, are unconditional leaders of sales in computer branch as at the small size and the reasonable price of their opportunity in most cases appear sufficient for the decision of the diversified problems(tasks) at office, on manufacture, in a life.

    Desktop personal computers have the system block containing the power supply, a parent payment with the processor, a hard disk, disk drives, the monitor, the keyboard, the mouse. The fax, the modem and other external devices can be connected to them, for example audiocolumns. In some models of domestic personal computers the system block with the monitor are collected in the uniform case (AppleiMac, Acer Aspire, Compaq Presario).

    Office personal computers are intended mainly for work in a network and consequently have support removed config The domestic personal computers which have been not intended for work in a network, support communications through the Internet. They differ and a set of additional opportunities. In a management(manual) « PC 99 System Design Guide » (http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm), developed the group of the companies led by Microsoft and Intel, results technical requirements to desktop domestic (Consumer) and office (Office) the personal computer of the end 1990.