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Terms and definitions from Course 1
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IT Support
Terms and definitions from Course 1
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404 Not Found: An error message you might see on websites that have been moved or deleted
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Abstraction: To take a relatively complex system and simplify it for our use
Address bus: Connects the CPU to the MCC and sends over the location of the data, but not the data itself
Algorithm: A series of steps that solves specific problems.
Android: A mobile operating system based on Linux
Application: A computer program designed for a specific use
Application software: Any software created to fulfill a specific need, like a text editor, web browser, or graphics editor
ARPANET: The earliest version of the Internet that we see today, created by the US government project DARPA in the 1960s
ASCII: The oldest character encoding standard used is ASCII. It represents the English alphabet, digits, and punctuation marks
Assembly language: A language that allowed computer scientists to use human readable instructions, assembled into code that the machines could understand
ATA: The most common interface that hard drives use to connect to our system
ATX (Advanced Technology eXtended): The most common form factor for motherboards
Automation: It makes processes work automatically
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Backward compatible: It means older hardware works with newer hardware
Binary system: The communication that a computer uses is referred to as binary system, also known as base-2 numeral system
Bios (Basic Input Output Services): The BIOS is software that helps initialize the hardware in our computer and gets our operating system up and running
BIOS/UEFI: A low-level software that initializes our computer's hardware to make sure everything is good to go
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