E4 OUTPUT

Other terms and concepts relating to output are to be found in Section F1 (for elements of print), Section F4 (for sound), Section B7, Section E6 and Section E7 (for communications) and Section B5 (for control).

We give instructions and data to computers. The computer uses the instructions as computer programs to process the data to produce results, which are known as output. The results may be of various forms, sound, text and diagrams, data for external storage, messages to control equipment or to send or receive emails and access the internet. They may be dynamic images, visible on a computer screen, or static, such as those produced by a printer.

The output devices attached to the computer system make the output usable. The two ...

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