The CCIT lab assistants can tell you what to do in the CCIT labs. Visiting Faculty, retirees supporting UA projects, and certain others with special UA affiliation should contact the Customer Accounts office for information on creating an account. New accounts and password changes will be processed within 1 hour. Octal Octal is base 8. If you take a number and express it in base 2, each of the resulting digits is called a bit.
Most computers store information in byte-sized units.
This piece of hardware executes the actual programs. It performs all of the arithmetic, logical, looping, and decision making operations. Recent PCs are equipped with around 20 GB of disk. OS The OS, or Operating System, is a RAM-resident program that executes other programs and coordinates access to system resources. Computers are equipped with a small amount of ROM, or Read Only Memory.