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Students' Guide to Information Technology, 2nd Edition
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Students' Guide to Information Technology, 2nd Edition

by Roger Carter
May 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
266 pages
11h 32m
English
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Students Guide to Information
Technology
Microprocessors
and
logic
Microprocessors are sometimes called logic chips, because they work
according to the rules of
logic.
The earliest computers also worked
according to these rules. The glass valves in those computers, and the
transistor switches in modern microprocessors, ire organized into
what are called
logic
gates.
These enable the microprocessor to carry
out the logical operations AND, OR, and NOT. The significance of
this is that by combining these operations, the microprocessor can
perform arithmetic and other tasks on the information that is fed into
it.
So to explain how microprocessor ...
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