4COMPUTER ANATOMY
You learned about the properties of bits and ways of using them to represent things in Chapter 1. In Chapters 2 and 3, you learned why we use bits and how they’re implemented in hardware. You also learned about a number of basic building blocks and how they could be combined into more complex configurations. In this chapter, you’ll learn how those building blocks can be combined into a circuit that can manipulate bits. That circuit is called a computer.
There are many ways of constructing a computer. The one we’ll build in this chapter was chosen for ease of explanation, not because it’s the best possible design. And although ...
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