Instruction Set - ANSWERSset of instructions that a processor is hard wired to process
Application software - ANSWERShelps users carry out tasks for day to day use
Operating Software - ANSWERSHelps computers run programs
Form Software - ANSWERShelps computer monitor itself to run efficiently
Mainframe - ANSWERSbig computers that can process data for hundred/thousands of users
simultaneously
Supercomputers - ANSWERSrefers to the fastest computers in the world at the time of construction
-have a lot of processing powers
Servers - ANSWERSservers data or other resources to a network (web servers, email servers, application,
application servers& data servers
CPU - ANSWERScentral processing unit
ALU - ANSWERSarithmetic logic unit
-part of the CPU
-performs all arithmetic operations
- where the data is stored
Control Unit - ANSWERS-fetches the instructions
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