Revised 01/18/99; 01/17/00

CHAPTER 4 --- The Processor

From previous chapters you know that the major hardware components of a computer system are:

Processor
Main memory
Secondary memory devices
Input/output devices

This chapter first examines the "brains" of the computer system---the processor.

Chapter Topics:

Machine operations and machine language.
Example of machine language.
Different types of processor chips.
High level programming languages.
Language translators (compilers.)
Language interpreters.

QUESTION 1:

What component of a computer system is directly responsible for running a program?

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