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The aims of this chapter are to introduce the following:
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the components of a computer — the hardware;
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the component parts of a complete computer system — the other devices that you need to do useful work with a computer;
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the software needed to make the hardware do what you want;
‘Don’t Panic’
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Chivers, I.D., Sleightholme, J. (1995). Introduction to Computer Systems. In: Introducing Fortran 90. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3031-4_2
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