This chapter is going to give you a general understanding of the fundamentals of computer functioning. We will describe a core model of computation, enumerate its extensions, and take a closer look at two of them, namely, registers and hardware stack. It will prepare you to start assembly programming in the next chapter.
1.1 The Core Architecture
1.1.1 Model of Computation
What does a programmer do? A first guess would probably be “construction of algorithms and their implementation.” So, we grasp an idea, then we code, and this is the common way of thinking.
Can we construct an algorithm to describe ...
