 The Personal Computer or PC is a broad term used to describe many kinds of small design computer systems

THE PERSONAL COMPUTER

CPU EVOLUTION NameDateTransistorsMicrons Clock speed Data width MIPS ,00062 MHz8 bits ,200, MHz32 bits20 Pentium19933,100, MHz 32 bits 64-bit bus 100 Pentium II 19977,500, MHz 32 bits 64-bit bus ~300

CPU EVOLUTION NameDateTransistors Micron s Clock speed Data width MIPS Pentium III 19999,500, MHz 32 bits 64-bit bus ~510 Pentium ,000, GHz 32 bits 64-bit bus ~1,700 Pentium 4 "Prescott" ,000, GHz 32 bits 64-bit bus ~7,000

Lexicon Of Terms (In no order) ISA bus Architecture Industry Standard Architecture NICNetwork Interface Card PCI bus Architecture Peripheral Connect Interconnect Ethernet LAN A packet based transmission protocol that is based on Local Area Networks. IRQ Interrupt ReQuest, the signal that a peripheral or program uses to interrupt the CPU NOSNetwork Operating System GUIGraphic User Interface CPUCentral Processing Unit ChipA slang term for an integrated circuit RAMRandom Access Memory BIOSBasic Input Output System MHz MegaHertz - A measurement of frequency in millions of cycles per second BUS General term that refers to data, address and control circuits on a system DOSMS-DOS – Microsoft Disk Operating System