Computer Systems: Processors, Memory, Data (CS_M33)

Michaelmas Term 2002

Lecturer

Slides, Handouts

Slides used in the Course

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• Postscript format (gzipped), with good quality of photos, 4 slides per page.

Some Useful Links

• Related courses, previous years
  • Course page CS_M33 from 2000
  • Course page CS_M33 from 2001
  • Related Course CS_113: From languages to hardware
• Links from Agatha S. Charles
  • Current trends
    • Recent Trends in the growth of potential total factor productivity and its relation to computer techonology
  • History
    • History of information technology and systems
    • Transportation Technology Videos
  • Buying equipment
    • The guide to buying a laptop
    • Computer buying guide -- laptop vs Desktop
• Dictionaries, Terminology
  • Britannia.com Good for looking up terminology
  • Whatis?com Dictionary of IT-specific terms.
  • Tom's hardware guide
    • Comparison of CPUs (benchmarking)
  • A complete illustrated guide to the PC hardware
  • The extended ASCII chart
  • A Glossary of Computer Oriented Acronyms
  • Computer Organisation and Operating Systems FAQ
• Books
  • W. Stallings: Computer Organization and Architecture. Fifth Edition (lots of links)
  • D. Patterson and J. Hennessy: Computer Organization and Design (lots of links)
  • A. Tanenbaum: Structured Computer Organization (one simulator)
• Simulators
  • Microprocessor Simulator
• Online Tutorials and indepth Information
  • Assembly Languages
    • The art of assembly language programming.
  • Instruction sets, Opcodes
    • Instruction Sets and Opcodes for Pentium Pro and others
  • Specific Architectures
    • The Ithanium procssor family
      • Tutorial
    • Intel Technical Information (Instruction set and architecture of Intel Pentium[TM] Processors; information provided by Intel).
      • Organization of the Pipline
      • The superscalar intel pipeline
    • Intel MMX(TM) Technology- Introduction (Introduction to the Intel Architecture)
    • SPARC64-GP[tm] Processor
  • Computer Arithmetic
    • The IEEE 754 floating oint standard
    • The IEEE Standard 754 Floating-Point
  • Transistors
    • The transistor (Explanation of transistors and their history for non-specialists)
  • History of Computing
    • Charles Babbage Center for the History of Computing
      • The Analytical Engine Describes the Analytical Machine by Babbage in detail.
      • Web Refernces
    • Generations through the history of computing
    • The virtual museum of computing
    • History of Computing Information (Mainly on the ENIAC).
    • The machine that changed the world
    • The virtual museum of computing
    • Early Calculators