TY - BOOK AU - Morley, Deborah AU - Parker, Charels S. TI - Understanding Computers U1 - C 004 M82u CY - Singapore KW - Electronic Digital Computers KW - Microcomputer N2 - Accommodating a wide range of teaching preferences. Understanding Computers, 2009 Update provides comprehensive coverage of traditional topics while also covering relevant, up-to-the-minute new technologies and important societal issues, such as embedded computers, UMPCs, netbooks, multi-core CPUs, graphene chips, ExpressCards, hybrid hard drives, solid-state drives, IMOD displays, 3D printers, Microsoft Surface, mobile phone projectors, water cooling systems, Memory Spots, Data Dots, and other new and emerging types of hardware, silicon photonics, terascale computing, Windows ReadyBoost, Windows ReadyDrive, Windows SideShow, full disk encryption (FDE), self-encrypting hard drives, self-destructing hard drives, and other hardware technologies ER -