Chapter 1: Welcome Aboard

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Welcome Aboard

1.1 What We Will Try to Do

1.2 How We Will Get There

1.3 Two Recurring Themes

1.3.1 The Notion of Abstraction

1.3.2 Hardware vs. Software

1.4 A Computer System

1.4.1 A (Very) Little History for a (Lot) Better Perspective

1.4.2 The Parts of a Computer System

1.5 Two Very Important Ideas

1.6 Computers as Universal Computational Devices

1.7 How Do We Get the Electrons to Do the Work?

1.7.1 The Statement of the Problem

1.7.2 The Algorithm

1.7.3 The Program

1.7.4 The ISA

1.7.5 The Microarchitecture

1.7.6 The Logic Circuit

1.7.7 The Devices

Exercises

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