Courses/Computer Science/CPSC 355.W2014/Lecture Notes/WhatIsComputer

= Surgery on a PC, Extraction of CPU and Primary Memory =

Taking a PC apart. At its heart, what is a digital computer? (Code/Processing + Data, in other words, a CPU+Memory)

What is a processor? The ISA level and relationship to other areas of computer science.


 * Compilers and translators
 * Assembly
 * Machine implementation and low-level hardware programming (CPSC 359)
 * Operating Systems (CPSC 457)
 * Digital Logic, Boolean Logic

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