Computer Science: An OverviewComputer Science: An Overview truly lives up to its title, providing a timely introduction to the entire computer science discipline. Broad coverage, combined with clear explanations, has made it the leading textbook for the breadth-first course. This book provides a balanced, realistic picture that communicates the dynamics of computer science by presenting topics in a historical perspective in which past developments, the current state of the art, and directions of research are discussed. The coverage of topics such as programming languages, operating systems, algorithms, software engineering, networking, database design, artificial intelligence, and machine architecture result in a complete overview of the field of computer science. |
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... instruction is decoded and obeyed . The order in which the instructions are fetched from memory corresponds to the order in which the instructions are ... instruction in the instruction register . 2.3 PROGRAM EXECUTION 83 Program Execution.
An Overview J. Glenn Brookshear. With the instruction now in the instruction register , the control unit decodes the instruction , which involves breaking the operand field into its proper components based on the instruction's op - code ...
... instruction . It is at this time that register 6 is actually loaded . Since the program counter now contains A4 , the control unit extracts the next instruction starting at this address . The result is that 5056 is placed in the instruction ...