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NON–VON NEUMANN MODELS

Until recently, the majority all-purpose computers followed the Neumann style. That is, the design consisted of a central processing unit, memory, and I/O devices, and that they had single storage for instructions and information, in addition as one bus used for taking…

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The von Neumann model

In the earliest electronic computing machines, programming was synonymous with connecting wires to plugs. No layered architecture existed, so programming a computer was as much of a feat of electrical engineering as it was an exercise in algorithm design. Before thei…

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Central processing unit (CPU)

T he central processing unit (CPU) is the “brain” of the computer and is responsible for accepting data from input devices, processing the data into information, and transferring the information to memory and output devices. The CPU is organized into the following thre…

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