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The term ‘hardware’ is used to cover all those pieces of equipment which are used to implement computer programs. The computer programs themselves are referred to as ‘software’ and are considered in detail in Chapter 3. A third term ‘firmware’ covers those software instructions which have been implemented permanently into the electronic hardware, usually to enable increased speed of computation to be achieved.
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© 1991 B.L. Davies, A.J. Robotham, A. Yarwood
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Davies, B.L., Robotham, A.J., Yarwood, A. (1991). Computer graphics hardware. In: Computer-aided Drawing and Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3074-5_2
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