DH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Floppy Disk, Amiga Chip Ram, Address Bus

• School: WLU
• Department: Digital Humanities
• Course: DH100
• Professor: Karljurgen Feuerherm

Document Summary

Cpu - central processing unit (an electric brain with cells and pathways) The executive component (where all the work is done) Gpus (graphics processing units) are secondary cpus, which are specialized. In terms of functionality, computers can only add. Used to boot computers (unchangeable instructions basic functionality) Initial action of starting the computer, helps start the chain reaction of turning on the operating system. Stores information while we are working on it short-term information. Very, very fast fast storage area (expensive as well) The more ram you have, the more things you can work on at once (computer can handle a larger load) Used to (cid:271)e (cid:373)ade (cid:449)ith (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:396)es(cid:863) (cid:894)little do(cid:374)uts(cid:895) a(cid:374)d ams had stati(cid:272) (cid:373)e(cid:373)o(cid:396)(cid:455) very slow. Called (cid:862)(cid:396)a(cid:374)do(cid:373) a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess (cid:373)e(cid:373)o(cid:396)(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause a(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:272)ell (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e (cid:396)ead di(cid:396)e(cid:272)tl(cid:455) The different parts of the computer must know when each part will go needs a beat, this is called a clock.