CDA4101, Fall 1998, Mid Term Topics

Chapter 1

• Languages, Levels, and Virtual Machines
• Contemporary Multilevel Machines
• Hardware, Software, and Multilevel Machines
• Milestones in Computer Architectrue - know the generations and the dominant technology for that generation (not rubber bands, hamsters, and tachion pulses)

Chapter 2

• Processors
• Instruction Execution
• CPU Organization
• Memory
• Memory Addresses
• Input/Output - overview
• Terminals - overview

Chapter 3

• Yes, all of it