Peripheral management
What Peripheral management means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Uses device drivers to send data to and receive data from input, output and storage devices such as keyboards, printers and disks.
Uses device drivers to translate OS commands into signals hardware understands, and handles input and output.
Topics that use Peripheral management
- Operating systems (OCR GCSE)
- Software (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Process management
- User interface
- User management
- Backup
- Data compression
- Disk defragmentation
- File management
- File repair
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