Computer components
The hidden parts of your computer
The motherboard
The motherboard is the main circuit board inside your PC, its connect the CPU, RAM, disk drives and graphics/ sound cards. It is called the motherboard because it is the mother of your PC it looks after/controls most of the components in your PC. Everything in your computer is connected to it.
The operating system
The operating system
The operating system is the most important programme that runs on a computer. Every general-purpose computer must have an operating system to run other programs. operating systems perform basic tasks, such as recognizing input from the keyboard, sending output to the display screen, keeping track of files and directories on the disk, and controlling peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers. For large systems, the operating system has even bigger responsibilities and powers. It makes sure that different programs and users running at the same time do not interfere with each other. The operating system is also responsible for security, ensuring that unauthorized users do not access the system.
Alan Turing
Alan Turing is often called the father of modern computing. He was a mathematician and logician. He developed the idea of the modern computer and artificial intelligence. During the Second World War he worked for the government breaking the codes that the enemies were sending to each other and Churchill said he shortened the war by two years. He designed the programming of the world's first commercial computer.
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