Computing

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What is speed?
The rate at which we can transfer data
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What is MAR and what does it do?
Memory Data Register. It stores the memory location of the next piece of data or program to be fetched from memory.
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What is the accumulator?
A register within the ALU that calculates the results of currently running instructions.
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What is the MDR and what does it do ?
It is the Memory Data Register and it temporarily stores the data that is being fetched from memory.
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What is capacity?
The amount of data you can store on the device.
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What is portability?
The ease of moving the data around and carrying the device around
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What is reliability?
How consistent the device is when storing data and the portability of it when required
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What is Clock Speed?
The speed at which a processor operates
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What is MAR and what does it do?

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Memory Data Register. It stores the memory location of the next piece of data or program to be fetched from memory.

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What is the accumulator?

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What is the MDR and what does it do ?

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Card 5

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What is capacity?

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