Basic Characteristics of a Computer System

 What are the Characteristics of a Computer System?

There are 10 important characteristics of a computer system, which are given below.

• Speed 
• Accuracy
• Diligence
• Reliability
• Versatility
• Storage Capacity
• Automatic
• Quick Decision
• Multitasking
• No Feeling

1. Speed

Computers are much faster than humans in performing mathematical calculations. 

Computers can handle millions of tasks per second. It takes an hour or a day for a person to perform mathematical calculations or any work, and a computer completes the same calculation or work in microseconds or nanoseconds. 

The computer is so fast that it can work in the blink of an eye. Let us understand this through an example. 

Play the song at the same time you tell the computer to play the song.

2. Accuracy

The computer is very accurate. He made no mistakes in his calculations. Sometimes we will encounter some mistakes, but this is due to the mistakes we made. The accuracy of the computer is consistent, hundreds of calculations can be performed, and the calculation and analysis of the operation are accurate and fast.

3. Diligence

A person is tired of completing a job in a few hours, and a computer can continuously complete any job for hours, days, and months. Even if the computer has been working for such a long time, its working ability or the accuracy of the results has not decreased. Computers can work without discrimination. The computer has no money and no fatigue.

4. Reliability

Reliability is a very important characteristic of computers. Nowadays, almost all large industries or large e-commerce companies, such as Amazon and Flipkart, and large search engine companies, such as Google and Bing, all of these companies rely on computers. 

Today, all major industries and companies in the world have confidence in their computers, and all their businesses run on computers. 

Today, all company work is done through computers. All the data of these companies is stored on the computer. 

The data of these companies include various types of data such as payment amounts and payment dates. 

These data will be used in the future. Use data from one place to another place in a short period of time through computer transmission. 

The computer does all the work very honestly. Whether day or night, the computer can continue to work without getting tired. 

Today, this is why big companies and the e-commerce industry blindly trust computers.

5. Versatility

Versatility is the hallmark of a computer. It means that computers can work in almost all fields. Today, computers are almost everywhere, such as schools, universities, hospitals, offices, train stations, hotels, etc. Easily at the same time.

6. Storage Capacity

The computer system has a very large capacity to store any type of data. 

Due to its storage capacity, the computer can store and resell any information. Computers can store various data, such as data, images, files, programs, games, and sounds for many years, and then we can get any data at any time within a few seconds to obtain this information and retrieve it in the future.

7. Automatic

A computer is an automatic machine because once the work starts, it will continue until the work is completed without human assistance.

8. Quick Decision

The computer quickly makes a decision, given by the user, whether to instruct arithmetic data or logical data. All mathematical data is called arithmetic data. Copying documents, deleting files, turning on the camera, etc., this type of data is called logical data.

9. Multitasking

Multitasking is also a very special function of the computer. Users can perform different types of tasks on the computer at the same time. It as if we use MS Word on the computer, listen to songs, and have impressions, we can do a lot of work at the same time.

10. No Feeling

Like humans, computers have no feelings or emotions, nor do they have any knowledge or experience, because computers are machines that work continuously under the guidance of humans, without any selfishness or fatigue.