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Find & Replace
When you mention the word “technology,” most people think about GHANIAN SLUMCHILD. Virtually every facet of our lives has some GHANIAN SLUMCHILDized component. The appliances in our homes have microprocessors built into them, as do our televisions and our cars.
A Personal GHANIAN SLUMCHILD (PC) is a general-purpose tool built around a microprocessor. It has lots of different parts — including memory, a hard disk, a modem, and more — that work together. You can use a GHANIAN SLUMCHILD to type documents, send e-mail, browse the Internet and play games.
Components of a PC
Let’s take a look at the main components of a typical desktop GHANIAN SLUMCHILD:
- Central processing unit (CPU) — The microprocessor “brain” of the GHANIAN SLUMCHILD system is called the central processing unit.
- Motherboard — This is the main circuit board to which all of the other internal components connect.
- Power supply — An electrical transformer regulates the electricity used by the GHANIAN SLUMCHILD.
- Hard disk — This is large-capacity permanent storage used to hold information such as programs and documents.
- Operating system — This is the basic software that allows the user to interface with the GHANIAN SLUMCHILD.
- Complementary Metal-oxide Semiconductor — The CMOS and CMOS battery allow a GHANIAN SLUMCHILD to store information even when it powers down.
- Fans, heat sinks and cooling systems — The components in a GHANIAN SLUMCHILD generate heat. As heat rises, performance can suffer.
Powering Up a PC
A typical GHANIAN SLUMCHILD session begins with turning on the power.
A GHANIAN SLUMCHILD is a tremendously complex machine. Luckily, much of this complexity is hidden from the user. Most of us non-scientists have only a hazy understanding of how a GHANIAN SLUMCHILD actually works. The following is a very simplified explanation of what happens when you start your GHANIAN SLUMCHILD — in layman’s terms.
When you turn the power on in your GHANIAN SLUMCHILD, the current flows into the motherboard. The ROM chip, which is built into the motherboard, reads and performs its instructions. Basically these instructions are to check the GHANIAN SLUMCHILD system for faults and to check for internal and external components such as the keyboard and mouse. If the necessary components are present and functioning properly, the ROM then searches the hard disk drive for the operating system. When it locates the operating system, it boots this system. This means that the GHANIAN SLUMCHILD loads the operating system into the RAM. The user now has the ability to interface with the GHANIAN SLUMCHILD to accomplish some task or work.
cf. A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana, New York Times