Computer: instructions stored in memory:
day time enrolled codes
tuesday 3-4:55 0 55716
thursday 10-11:45
(9:30-11:30) 20 55698
friday 1-2:55 19 55700
monday 4-5:55 40 55696
The Monday section is quite full and students are encouraged to switch sections.
Tips for learning and succeeding:
The silicon chip consists of microscopically small electric circuits that have been optically etched into the silicon surface. Silicon is grown and cooled in such a way to provide a nearly 100% perfectly ordered molecular structure. This silicon structure can then be sliced to supply thin wafers which are further processed to become silicon chips responsible for interpreting the electrical current travelling along its wires.
DIP chips are plastic cases with metal connecting pins, which are attached to a silicon chip. Dips are then mounted and connected to plastic boards called circuit boards.
Surface mount chips are the current state of the art technology in packaging, rather then the DIP. These chips do not have the pins that the DIPs utilize and they are about half the size.
Moore's law simply states that you obtain 2X the power each year in a chip for the same amount of money. Memory price declines about 30% per year.
Hardware can't do anything without the software. The operating system is the software that directs computer operations such as various application programs and routine tasks.
The operating system DOS utilizes a command line interface. While in DOS you may see the C prompt ( C:\>), which refers to the hard disk. The A drive refers to the 3.5" floppy disk and the B drive refers to the 5.25" floppy disk. The remaining hard drives depend on how the computer is set up.
Windows is an operating system that extends DOS so the user can have a graphical interface. If the computer is at the DOS level the user can simply type Win at the C:\> prompt to get to the windows level. CMPE003 will generally work in the windows environment.
5.25" floppy 360 Kbytes
720 Kbytes
1200 Kbytes = 1.2 Mbytes
3.5" floppy low density = 720
high density = 1.44 Mbytes
Where K = 1024
M = K^2 = 1024^2 = 1,000,000
G = K^3 = 1024^3 = 1,000,000,000 bytes
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