3.5. Internal Hardware
Hardware Overview
By Paul Mullins: constructed image
In the first module, we saw a simple block diagram of the computer processing data and creating information. This is simply an update with some of the hardware we talked about shown (along with some sample I/O devices). It's still simple!
The Brains
Lots of people call the CPU the brain of the computer — an overly simple analogy. But if we're going to use it, let's include the brain's short-term or working memory, RAM with cache being even shorter-term memory. If you share my distaste for the label of "brain", we can call it the computer's "processor system".
