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An introductory course

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

D. J. Williamson
D. J. Williamson*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries DG1 4TG
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As we have previously mentioned, the computer itself is simply a collection of chips and circuit boards which are useless without software. Application software is what you do work with, i.e. your word processor or database etc, but the application software itself needs an operating system to run within. The operating system, however, needs something called a basic input/output system (BIOS) to operate. This is software but stored in ROM (Read Only Memory) on chips, and tells the computer what to do when it is first switched on.

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Computers in psychiatry
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 10 , October 1992 , pp. 640 - 641
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992
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