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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition
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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition

by Linda Null, Julia Lobur
March 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
744 pages
26h 5m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Preface

TO THE STUDENT

This is a book about computer organization and architecture. It focuses on the function and design of the various components necessary to process information digitally. We present computing systems as a series of layers, starting with low-level hardware and progressing to higher-level software, including assemblers and operating systems. These levels constitute a hierarchy of virtual machines. The study of computer organization focuses on this hierarchy and the issues involved with how we partition the levels and how each level is implemented. The study of computer architecture focuses on the interface between hardware and software, and emphasizes the structure and behavior of the system. The majority of information ...

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ISBN: 9781284123043