A mysterious section in technology referred to as a dark cloud,
computing: how does a computers really work; computers are categorized by several measures , mainly the similarity between computers remains the known Hardware, Software of any computer; more confusing portion of the computer system is the synchronization of the software with the hardware of the computer system.
computing: how does a computers really work; computers are categorized by several measures , mainly the similarity between computers remains the known Hardware, Software of any computer; more confusing portion of the computer system is the synchronization of the software with the hardware of the computer system.
The Computer Hardware: This is defined as the physical and hand able part of a computer , in more clear terms examples such as the keyboard, mouse, system unit and so on , the integration of this part with the software(s) is what makes the computer worth using.
The Computer Software: Software(s) are made up of instruction to give the hardware directions on how to perform any task, a bunch of definitions have been made to explain what the hardware really is; in better term the software is a language in which the computer can understand ( it should be noted: its not all programming languages a computer can understand , computers can only understand a language called machine language also known as binary digits , 0's and 1's) the combination and or alteration of this binary digits is what makes an instruction set.
What are low level languages ?
Machine languages
Assembly language
till date it still baffles me what the early programmers would have really gone through working with machine codes ,
lets try explain what it really would mean to to code in machine language
The concept of the Bit;
What is a bit ?
Ans- a bit is an acronym for binary digit - as said above 0's and 1's
What is a Nibble?
Ans- a nibble is group of 4 bits such as 0111 or 0010 etc
What is a byte ?
Ans- a byte is a group of 8 bits such as 01011001 or 10111001 etc.
What is a Word?
Ans- a word in computing is a group of 16 bits such as 0101100110111001 or 1000111001001010 etc.
What is a double word?
Ans- a byte is a group of 32 bits
What is a quad word ?
Ans- a byte is a group of 64 bits
Here is the question you might have in your mind if you've been following... how possible will the combination of this digits cause an action to be initiated.?
basically 1's and 0's simply means on and off , the combination of a 3 offs and 1 on would mean an instruction in a nibble set;
This brings us to the assembly language a more interesting approach to programming to humans ; with the assembly language the concept of the use of human relative language called mnemonic was adopted, its said to be the the fastest executable language next to machine languages.
... post continues in the next edition.
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