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.