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The personal computer, or PC for short, is usually made up of three
components, namely the keyboard, monitor and central processing unit.
It is the system or mother board in the CPU which forms the "brains"
of the computer. On this circuit card assembly will be found various
memory ICs such as prom or eprom for the firmware, dynamic ram for the
main memory and static ram for the cache. The prom is non-volatile
storage for the BIOS code which forms the interface between the
hardware registers and the operating system. The cache consists of
high speed static ram which holds the currently accessed area of
memory. Computers are controlled by programs collectively known as
software. Programs can be written using a variety of languages
ranging from low level hexadecimal machine code to 4th generation
program generators.