2018-2019学年度人教版必修二Unit2 Computers-reading教案
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help you know more about computers. Some people use these words to impress other people (Also known as buzzwords).

Examples of jargon:

Bit - The smallest data unit, can either be a "0." or a "1.".

Byte - unit of data. See also Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte and Nibble

CPU -Central Processing Unit, Another name for processor

Data - Information stored on a computer

Disk - A place to store data.

Email - Electronic mail.

GHz - Gigahertz. Used often incorrectly to describe the speed of a processor. But with some 2.4 GHz processors faster than 3.6 GHz ones, it is clear that it is just a salesman trick.

Load - Get data from a disk

Nibble - Half a Byte

Save - Put data on a disk

RAM - random-access memory(随机存取存储器), the more the better.