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Waveform Audio File Format  |  1994-06-16  |  2.6 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  2 minutes, 3 seconds
Transcription: You can't really look inside the human brain. And in your case, who knows what we'd find? But we can see where the thinking takes place in your PC, in the microprocessor. Let's say you ask your PC for a file. Your hard drive sends data to RAM and then onto the microprocessor. Sometimes we make it easy and just call it the processor. Thanks! The processor is the brain that handles the actual work, forming words, creating graphics, and so on. In many PCs, processor gets help for certain jobs. A math coprocessor, for instance, may do the heavy arithmetic. Or the video board may have a special chi ...