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Trace a program into the machine

Computer architecture videos

Computer-architecture videos can begin with a working machine or with abstract diagrams. A small computer built around a processor gives concrete meaning to addresses, buses and instructions before you tackle modern pipelines and caches.

A build-oriented start and a historical complete system

Eater’s 6502 opening is a useful entry if you want to follow a machine coming together. The Apollo Guidance Computer presentation adds a system shaped by unusually demanding constraints. Compare them through instruction execution, memory and interaction with the outside world. The historical case is not a smaller modern laptop; its goals explain why particular hardware and software decisions mattered.

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Questions to take into the video

A breadboard series needs more electronics background to reproduce than to watch. A historical architecture also does not predict current processor performance.

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