Six Operating Systems
Software
Software is divided into two areas system and application software
It is invisible on a computer disk.
Hardware
In hardware there are five categories which consist of, input, output,
secondary storage, communications, and processing/ memory. Machinery
works together to form the hardware of an operating system.
Data/Information
There are many means that data can be processed by, these include,
fields,records,bits,bytes,databases, and files. They can also be put
into sizes such as Kilobytes,megabytes,gigabytes and terabytes.
Information is also known as processed data.
Communications
This is the transfer of data that involves a process. Communication can
be spread by many differant means such as the phone or the internet.
Procedures
Procedures are basically instructions or steps that are put in a certain
order to obtain a goal. A lot of the things that are put into a computer
involve very exact instuctions so that the task can be completed. If these
steps are not followed as they should be the whole purpose of even trying to
input the information can be useless.
People
All people just like me blame the "stupid" computer every time something
goes wrong, which is stupid in its self because really you are entering
the information and if you enter it wrong that is your own fault. People
can have faulty assesment of information needs, or have human emotions
get in the way of the job getting done correctly, also human perceptions
may be to slow.
