Description

This highly acclaimed, well-established and widely adopted text, now in its Fourth Edition, shows, in an easy to read style, how a computer system functions, besides covering the basics of programming. It analyzes, syste-matically and logically, both the hardware and software aspects of computers. The book begins with how numeric and character data are represented in a computer, and how various input and output units function. The text then goes on to give a masterly analysis of how different types of memory units are organized and how data is processed by the processor. Besides, it explains clearly and concisely the interconnection between I/O units, memory and processor. Software concepts such as programming languages, and operating systems are lucidly explained.