Describe a standalone personal computer and show how data flows around the system please.?

Answer 1

ditto

Answer 2

Flow of data:
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Input → Process → Output

From the output we get feedback which influences the input of the next process.

Data NEVER flows around a system because once processed it is INFORMATION.

DEFINITIONS:
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DATA: Raw facts and figuers with no meaning to the user

INFORMATION: Processed data into a fomat that can be understood by the user

Process: The convertion of data being manipulated into information

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A standalone pc is any pc that i snot connected to any form of network. They can only access data stored on a pc. Technially the internet is a form of netwroking pc's. A literal definiton is:

A pc NOT connected to anything , you may say that all pc's connected to the internet are in a network

Answer 3

To what level of detail? The PC itself will need to be described, probably in terms of the processor, buses, memory etc. Data flow will need to describe the system bus (data bus, control bus and address bus). You probably need some detail on buses - the unidirectional flow of addresses from CPU to main memory or peripheral devices via the address bus, the bidirectional flow of control data on the control bus (Ack, interrupt requests, Read/write requests etc.) and the bidirectional flow of data on the data bus (data being data itself and instructions). How much detail do you need? Do you need a description of registers? (Program counter, current instruction register, memory address register, status register, interrupt register, accumulator, memory data register - have I forgotten any major ones?)