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MAN PAGES // WEEK 02

COMPUTERS, INSTRUCTIONS, BINARY · Ch 1 Sec 1-3 + Shannon · six terms · write your own usage line under each
$ man BIT
one binary digit: a single 0 or 1

$ man BYTE
eight bits; enough to hold one character or a number up to 255

$ man BINARY
counting with only two digits, the way hardware does

$ man HARDWARE
the physical machine: chips, drives, screens

$ man SOFTWARE
the instructions the machine runs

$ man INSTRUCTION
one small step a computer executes, in order, very fast