The term word processing describes use of hardware and software to create, edit, view, format, store, retrieve and print documents (written materials such as letters, reports, books, etc.). A word processing package enables us to do all these on computer system. Commonly supported features: Today's word processing packages normally support the features described below: 1. Entering Text : This feature allows a user to enter text with computer's keyboard. Every character typed on keyboard is displayed immediately on computer's screen. Word wrap feature of word processing software determines when current line is full, and it automatically moves the text that follows to the next line. Hence, only time the user has to press Enter key is at the end of the paragraph. This feature is very useful to those having fast typing speed because they can enter text at their speed, without the need to keep track of where to end a line. 2. Editing Text : This feature allows a user to make cha
Computer's CPU contains necessary circuitry for data processing and controlling other components of the computer. However, one thing it does not have built into it the to store programs and data needed during data processing. The CPU contains several registers for storing data and instructions but they can store only a few bytes at a time. They are just sufficient to hold one two instructions with corresponding data. If instructions and data of an executing program were to reside in secondary storage like a disk, and fetched and loaded one by one into CPU registers as the program execution proceeded, this would load the CPU being idle most of the time. This is because there is a large speed mismatch between the rate at which CPU can process data and the rate at which the system can transfer data from disk to CPU registers. For example, a CPU can process data at a rate of above 5 nanoseconds/byte and a disk reader can read data at a speed of about 5 microseconds/byte. Hence, within