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Stages

At the most basic level, computers work through three stages, what’s called

the computing process:

• Input

• Processing

• Output

You start the action by doing something—clicking the mouse, typing on

the keyboard, or touching the touch screen. This is input. The parts inside the

device or case take over at that point as the operating system tells the

hardware to do what you’ve requested. This is processing.

In fact, at the heart of every computing device is a central processing unit

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