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A language which makes sense to human
intelligence.
HIGH-LEVEL
LANGUAGE
The highest value.
Used in talking of
bits in a byte.
The high-order bit of a
byte is the highest place binary value.
HIGH-ORDER
Abbriviation of Input/Output.
I/O
Floppy disk awareness (physically) of
the start of each track of information.
A hole is punched in the diskette.
When
it passes a sensor an awareness is made.
INDEX
HOLE
Data entering a computer from the
outside world. It can come from a
console or a remote peripheral.
INPUT
INPUT/OUTPUT Softwareroutines orhardware architec
tures which receive or transmit data
with
peripherals external
to
the
computer.
(I/O)
A command in a program that a computer
can execute. In a high-level language,
instructions may be comprised of many
characters.
INSTRUCTION
A device or set of logics which make I/O
possible.
INTERFACE
A special program which interprets and
executes a higher-level language,
interpreters are written in machine
language.
INTERPRETER
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