What Is A Computer - Toshiba Portégé 650CT User Manual

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What's Really

By now, you've probably become pretty good at using your com-

puter. However, you may be curious as to what is really going on

while you're pounding away at the keyboard. This chapter gives

you all the details of how your computer works.

What Is a Computer?

In one sense, your Portégé 650CT is a computer. Technically

speaking however, the processor chip, where the actual computing

takes place, is the computer. Everything else either provides infor-

mation to the processor or receives the results of the processor's

computations.