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But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone

By J.Clark Scott

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
9780615303765
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2505559 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
\266
Time added
2023-05-30 05:15:09

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Table of Contents Introduction Just the Facts Ma’am Speed Language Just a Little Bit What the…? Simple Variations Diagrams Remember When What Can We Do With A Bit? A Rose by Any Other Name Eight Is Enough Codes Back to the Byte The Magic Bus More Gate Combinations First Half of the Computer Numbers Addresses The Other Half of the Computer More Gates Messing with Bytes The Left and Right Shifters The NOTter The ANDer The ORer The Exclusive ORer The Adder The Comparator and Zero Logic The Arithmetic and Logic Unit More of the Processor The Clock Doing Something Useful Step by Step Everything’s Under Control Doing Something Useful, Revisited What’s Next? The First Great Invention Instructions The Arithmetic or Logic Instruction The Load and Store Instructions The Data Instruction The Second Great Invention Another Way to Jump The Third Great Invention The Clear Flags Instruction Ta Daa! A Few More Words on Arithmetic The Outside World The Keyboard The Display Screen Another Code The Final Word on Codes The Disk Excuse Me Ma’am That’s All Folks Hardware and Software Programs The Operating System Languages The File System Errors Computer Diseases? Firmware Boots Digital vs. Analog I Lied – Sort of Full Disclosure Philosophy

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