Submitted by rocker93 on December 20, 2007

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Characteristics, Capabilities And Limitations Of Computers

COMPUTER SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS AND CAPABILITIES

1. Automatic
An automatic machine works by itself without human intervention. Computers are automatic machines because once started on a job, they carry out the job (normally without any human assistance) until it is finished. However, computers being machines cannot start themselves and cannot go out and find their own problems and solutions. We need to instruct a computer using coded instructions that specify exactly how it will do a particular job.

2. Speed
The smallest unit of time in the human experience is, realistically, the second. The operations (the execution of an instruction) for...

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