# How does a Computer Work?

computerelectronics

Creating a design of a house can be considered as computer architecture, whereas building the house can be considered as computer organization.

  • Charge, current
  • Diod
    • How do junctions work?
    • Doping process?
    • Forward and Backward biased
  • Transistor, BJT, MOSFET, CMOS
  • Logic Gates
  • Flip Flops - Registers
    • How to we save config in system. Design memory
  • S-RAM, D-RAM
  • Boolean Algebra - CPU Logic
    • Control Unit
    • Arithmetic And Logic Unit
  • ISA - Instruction Set Architecture
  • Architectures
    • SISD, SIMD, MISD, MIMD
    • vector architecture
  • How do we tell CPU what to do?
    • Programming
    • levels of praogramming
  • How does CPU keep track of multiple instructions
    • CPU CLock synchronization
    • CPU Pipelining
    • TOmosulos algorithm
  • Memory Hierarchy

At the end of the day, linux wants to make software and windows wants to make money

~ Anonymous

Software make for society

  • Computer only understand 0 and 1, unreadable for humans
    • Assembly level languages - Opcode mnemonics
      • more redable than machine code
    • ADD R1 R2
    • use hexademical, decimal and octal number system for representing 0's and 1's
  • Assemly is hard to write by humans, keeping track of all memory locations and pointers
  • Enter Compilers
  • How to process the opcodes? Hardware problem
  • How we generate opcoddes? - COmpiler Backend problem
  • GNU Compiler COllection GCC, LLVM
  • Then came more hardware peripherals
  • Operating System
    • Drivers
    • Firmware
    • Application Software
  • Why did we have to put ; at the end of each line?
    • to make it easy for parser to break instructions

Machine Code | Bytecode | Assembly Code?

Machine code is generally different from bytecode (also known as p-code), which is either executed by an interpreter or itself compiled into machine code for faster (direct) execution. An exception is when a processor is designed to use a particular bytecode directly as its machine code, such as is the case with Java processors.

Machine code and assembly code are sometimes called native code when referring to platform-dependent parts of language features or libraries

# questions

  • How to count the #lines of machine code written by a program?
  • How to print the machine code?
gcc -o fib fib.c
otool -tv fib

# Why do people contribute to opensource?

  1. I want to solve a problem
  2. I want to build my reputation
  3. I feel like I belong here, found theor tribe
  4. Its fun for me
  5. I am learning

# Rust vs C++

  • 90,000 bugs in C++ source code
  • All gaming engines are in C++

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