Notes on Computing and Electronics

This section of my web page contains old notes from my university days at Durham. People keep asking me "Do you have notes on such and such a topic?" and instead of photocopying the darned things, I shall simply direct them to here.

I should warn you - these notes stem from 1984, when dinosaurs roamed the land and beer was tuppence a pint, so don't expect anything radical. Still, the underlying principles should still be the same. I shall update and add to them as more information comes my way.

Operating Systems Computer Hardware - Input/Output Devices Systems Software Computer Networks File Processing Silicon Processing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Compilers and Interpreters Software Management

Formal Computer Grammars The Basics of Grammars NULL, Recursion and Syntax Diagrams Infix, Prefix and Postfix notation The Prefix Processor An example grammar - The Sentence Parser Computer Architecture Representing numbers in binary An introduction to the CPU The Fetch-Execute Cycle Machine code instructions

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