224 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
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224 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
3D Printing Machine
Research Laboratory. The laptop I am writing on uses the von Neumann
architecture, and most modern computers evolved from it. By contrast,
mobile phones are descended from the Harvard architecture developed
by IBM and first supplied to Harvard University in 1944, hence its name.
The distinction in architectures has blurred over the years. The world
supports two main computer chip technologies, one built for desktop
and laptop computers, designed by Intel in Santa Clara, California, and
the other, designed for mobile devices by ARM, in Cambridge, England.
All these computers can, in principle, run any piece of software.
Programs
Software is just a series of numbers. When you click an icon on your
desktop, the computer reads the number and interprets it as a series
of instructions. There is a decoder inside the computer that knows the
number ‘1’ means add the next two digits and the number 5493 means
display them on screen and so on. On my computer the operating system,
Apple's OSX, takes the number, decodes it and passes it to the CPU for
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015914
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