Basic Computer Science

File systems of varying degrees of sophistication satisfied the need for information storage and processing…

File storage Computers have been used since the 1950s for the storage and processing of…

The allocation of system resources to various tasks, known as job scheduling, is a major…

Development of operating systems In early computers, the user typed programs onto punched tape or…

Early languages Programming languages are the languages in which a programmer writes the instructions that…

Computer programs, the software that is becoming an ever-larger part of the computer system, are…

Multiprocessor design Creating a multiprocessor from a number of uniprocessors (one CPU) requires physical links…

The operation of such a computer, once a program and some data have been loaded…

A digital computer (see also analog computer) typically consists of a control unit, an arithmetic-logic…

Computer science as an independent discipline dates to only about 1960, although the electronic digital…