The processor, the memory ladder, storage, the buses and drivers that join it all up, and how we got here.
You will be able to name every part inside a processor and say what it does. You will be able to walk one instruction from memory to result, step by...
You will be able to draw the whole memory ladder, from registers down to You will be able to define temporal and spatial locality and show, with a...
You will be able to say exactly what makes storage different from memory, You will be able to draw a hard disk drive and name every moving part in it,...
You will be able to point at any part of a motherboard and say what it You will be able to explain what a bus is, and why fast links stopped...
You will be able to tell the story of computing from tally sticks to the You will be able to explain what a punched card did in a loom in 1804, and...