UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Fall 2004, Section 0101

Introduction & Overview

Thursday 09/02, 2004

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Assigned Reading in Murdocca & Heuring:  1.1-1.8

Assigned Reading in Neveln:  1.1-1.6

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Slides (in PDF): Slides01.pdf

Topics Covered:

• Handed out Course Description, Syllabus and Project Policy.
• Discussed academic integrity with respect to programming projects and homework for this class.
• Computing systems for this class ---- if you don't know Unix, learn fast.
• Levels of machines, the job of the operating system.
• Machine models: von Neumann vs. System Bus
• Fetch-Execute Cycle
• Review of base conversion: from base 6 to base 10, base 10 to base 6, binary numbers, hexadecimal numbers.