Computer Engineering (English for Special Purposes). Андриенко А.С. - 46 стр.

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5) The driver is a special device usually used by car drivers for
Floppy-disk driving.
6) It is very reasonable to ask for a driver when you buy a new
piece of hardware.
7) Software developers tend to make their products very small
and with poor interface to save computer resources.
8) Communication software is in great demand now because of
the new advances in communication technologies.
9) Application software is merely a general-purpose instrument.
10) Web-browsers is the class of software for electronic
communication through the network.
TEXT 11
Pre-reading task
1. Why do you think Bill Gates, President of Microsoft
Company is one of the richest people on the Earth?
2. Judging from your experience tell if UNIX is used
nowadays? What about OS/2?
3. Ask the students in your group who have experience
working with Windows (2000 or XP) about the advantages
and disadvantages of these operational systems.
4. Read the text “Operating Systems” and discuss the
following questions in group:
a) What problems faced programmers in the 1940's and
1950's?
b) Why were the first programs «complex» and «time-
consuming»?
c) What are the basic functions of operating system?
d) What does the abbreviation DOS mean?
e) What company developed the first version of DOS
operating system? For what purpose was it done? Was
the new operational system successful?
f) What is the difference between the PC-DOS and MS-DOS?
g) What does the abbreviation NT stand for? Is NT DOS-
compatible? What are the basic requirements for NT?
h) Who is the developer of OS/2?
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To send an address to a memory or a device in order that a
particular location in memory or the device may be identified.
7. Fetch - the action of reading data or instructions from memory.
1. Give the Russian equivalents to the following:
silicon chip, microprocessor chip, modular chips, multi-chip
arrangement, arithmetic and logic unit, central processing unit, a
cathode-ray-tube display, a two-dimensional plotter, address
buffer, a bit-sliced organization, strings of binary digits, interface,
program memory, random-access memory
2. Give the abbreviations of the following:
large-scale integrated circuits, random-access memory, input-
output, central processing unit, arithmetic and logic unit
3. Give the English equivalents to the following:
процессор, кристалл, синхронизация, адресный буфер,
входной/выходной сигнал, собирать по одной плате,
хранить данные, двоичный знак, логические и
арифметические операции.
TEXT 6
Pre-reading task
1. Read the text “Classification of Microprocessors”.
2. Study the definition of terms given below the text.
3. Discuss the following questions in group:
a) How are modern microprocessors classified?
b) What are the levels in hardware classification?
c) What are the characteristic features of the second level of
the microprocessors' classification?
d) What are the advantages of the small computer system
level?
e) What is the FDS intended for?
Classification of Microprocessors
The flood of microprocessors and microcomputers reaching
the market, combined with the rapid rate of innovation, guarantees that
any attempt to catalogue them will be instantly obsolete. A more fruitful
introduction to the "micro" marketplace is to classify systems

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