to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother. to mimic; impersonate: The students imitated the teacher behind her back. to make a copy of; reproduce closely. to have or assume the appearance of; simulate; resemble.
The input device might be a keyboard, the output device might be a monitor, a communication device might be a modem, a secondary storage device might be disk drive, and the processing devices include central processing unit (CPU) and main memory.
The Java object FileStream provides the means to access the data values but does not actually hold the file contents. There are two independent and largely parallel systems involved in I/O. InputStream and OutputStream are used to read and write 8-bit quantities and process binary files.The alternative hierarchy has two different classes Reader and Writer that are used to read and write 16-bit Unicode character values and process text files.nputStream and OutputStream are used to read and write 8-bit quantities and process binary files. The alternative hierarchy has two different classes Reader and Writer that are used to read and write 16-bit Unicode character values and process text files.