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CH 02
CH 02
CH 02
Computer Systems
• HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED
• COMPLEX COMPUTATIONS
• FASTEST CPUs
• LARGE SIMULATIONS
• STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPONENTS
• EXPENSIVE
2.6
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© Prentice Hall 2002
MAINFRAME
MIPS: Millions of Instructions per second
• LARGEST ENTERPRISE COMPUTER
• 5O MEGABYTES TO OVER ONE
GIGABYTE RAM
• COMMERCIAL, SCIENTIFIC, MILITARY
APPLICATIONS
• MASSIVE DATA
• COMPLICATED COMPUTATIONS
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2.7 © Prentice Hall 2002
MINICOMPUTER
• MIDDLE-RANGE
• 10 MEGABYTES TO OVER ONE
GIGABYTE RAM
• UNIVERSITIES, FACTORIES, LABS
• USED AS FRONT-END PROCESSOR FOR
MAINFRAME
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ARITHMETIC/LOGIC
CONTROL UNIT
UNIT
CLOCK
ROM
RAM
DATA BUS
ADDRESS BUS
CONTROL BUS
EBCDIC ASCII
(assume
C: 1100 0011 0even-parity
100 0011system)
1
A: 1100 0001 1 100 0001 0
T: 1110 0011 1 101 0100 1
Note how sum for each byte is an EVEN number
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Computer Systems