1 Setting the Stage
We’ll start with a brief overview of how computer hardware can be thought of as organized into three subsystems. The goal is to make sure we have a common framework for discussing how things are organized and how they fit together. Working within this framework, you’ll learn how a program is created and then executed.
This book contains a fair amount of programming. To help you prepare for doing the programming, this chapter ends with a section describing how to set up a programming environment, using my system as an example.
Computer Subsystems
You can think of computer hardware as consisting of three separate subsystems: ...
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