Re: Not tested???


"Mr Fixit" <mr_fixit@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> "Chris Howells" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > john wrote:
> >
> >> I can't believe the lack of common sense sometimes!
> >
> > Or the ability to read?
> >
> > > To test the laptop
> >> switch it on. To see what processor go into the control panel and have
a
> >> look.
> >
> > "I have been given a laptop CPU"
> >
> > CPU != laptop
>
>
> no CPU=Central Processing Unit
> The computing part of the computer. Also called the "processor," it is
made
> up of the control unit and ALU. Today, the CPUs of almost all computers
are
> contained on a single chip.
> ALU=Arithmetic and Logic Unit Carries out additions, subtractions,
> multiplications and divisions, as well as logical operations

Logical operations

!= is the Boolean operator 'not equal to'

or at least that is how I used to write it on a TTY terminal back in
nineteen seventy hummmmm
too long ago.

Dave


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