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

5. THE PERSONAL COMPUTER

6. CPU EVOLUTION NameDateTransistorsMicrons Clock speed Data width MIPS 808019746,00062 MHz8 bits0.64 8048619891,200,000125 MHz32 bits20 Pentium19933,100,0000.860 MHz 32 bits 64-bit bus 100 Pentium II 19977,500,0000.35233 MHz 32 bits 64-bit bus ~300

7. CPU EVOLUTION NameDateTransistors Micron s Clock speed Data width MIPS Pentium III 19999,500,0000.25 450 MHz 32 bits 64-bit bus ~510 Pentium 4200042,000,0000.18 1.5 GHz 32 bits 64-bit bus ~1,700 Pentium 4 "Prescott" 2004125,000,0000.09 3.6 GHz 32 bits 64-bit bus ~7,000

8. 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