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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd Edition
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd Edition

by Charles Petzold
August 2022
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
12h 55m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd Edition

Index

Numbers

0 (zero) and 1 (one)

Boolean algebra, 45

AND gates and, 7475

importance of, 9495

as “no” and “yes,” 47, 117118

8-bit adder, 180182, 202, 205, 210, 227, 303

6800 microprocessor, 313, 421, 428

8080 microprocessor. see Intel 8080

A

accumulating adders, 227228, 231232, 290, 293

accumulators, 335341, 343, 345346, 383

adding machines

8-bit edge-triggered, 289290

ALU as, 319323

automated, 289314

logic gate based, 169182

relay computers as, 183184

subtraction with, 202206, 210

addition tables, 97, 104, 111

address bus, 346, 348

Aiken, Howard, 184, 430

algebra, 4244

ALGOL, 431

algorithms, 94, 439

al-Khwarizmi, Muhammed ibn Musa, 94

Allen, Paul, 432, 433

Altair 8800, 288, 312, 318

Alto, 420421

ALU (arithmetic logic unit) ...

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ISBN: 9780137909261