The brain of the computer system is called the?

Answer 1

CPU. The Central Processing unit processes all the data that goes in and out of the computer. It also maintains the most commonly read data in its L1 and L2 Caches. (More cache = better usually).



If you had said the brain of the Windows operating system, I would have to say the Registry. People often go into Regedit and lobotomize thier computers!

Answer 2

'Brain' is just a metaphor that somewhat describes the controlling and processing functions of the Central Processing Unit. I have a lot of elderly and newbie customers to whom computers are a new and alien world. In explaining computer components to them, I like to use a somewhat different analogy... You can think of a computer as an office in a box. Memory is the desk where the work is laid out. The hard, floppy and optical disk drives are storage, like file cabinets. The Internet connection can be thought of as incoming mail or the telephone, offering contact with the outside world. The person sitting at the desk and processing the data and commands retrieved from the file cabinets and laid out on the desk is the CPU. It uses the software commands like a rule book: open this file, put this data here, you're going to need this file to do the next task, etc. According to these commands -- and many of them come from THE BOSS, namely you, sitting at the keyboard and using the mouse -- the CPU does things with the data. Create it, manipulate it, edit it, save it, throw it away... Does that help?

Answer 3

Central Processing Unit - CPU

Answer 4

Central Processing Unit because it is the part of the computer which accepts and acts on instructions where calculations are done and communications controlled. It includes the arithmetic logic unit for performing all math and logic operations, a control section for interpreting and executing instructions, internal memory for temporary storage of program variables and other functions.

Answer 5

Central Processing Unit (CPU).

Answer 6

CPU (Computer Processing Unit)

Answer 7

The CPU is the thing that Adds 1s & 0s really fast. The faster the processer the faster the computor.

Basic answer: CPU

Answer 8

CPU - central processing unit.

Answer 9

CPU (Central processing unit)
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpu