Computer Hardware

This week in CSC104 I was confronted with the realization that I have lost all previous knowledge I ever had of computer hardware. Bus? ALU? Compact discs??? This sounds like a job for good ol' Wikipedia.

Time to review some definitions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_logic_unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_%28computing%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture


I also discovered that Professor Heap posts additional notes on the CSC website. They are extremely helpful for anyone else who is looking for further clarification!

http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~heap/104/F12/Lectures/W7/hardware.html