Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and SoftwareMicrosoft Press, 2000 M10 11 - 400 páginas What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries. |
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Table of Contents Preface to the Paperback Edition | |
Best Friends | |
Codes and Combinations | |
Braille and Binary Codes | |
Anatomy of a Flashlight | |
Seeing Around Corners | |
Telegraphs and Relays | |
Our Ten Digits | |
Feedback and FlipFlops | |
Bytes and | |
An Assemblage of Memory | |
Automation | |
From Abaci to Chips | |
Two Classic Microprocessors | |
ASCII and a Cast of Characters | |
Get on the | |
Alternatives to | |
Bit by Bit by | |
Logic and Switches | |
Gates Not Bill | |
A Binary Adding Machine | |
But What About Subtraction? | |
The Operating System | |
Fixed Point Floating Point | |
Languages High and | |
The Graphical Revolution | |
A Acknowledgments | |
B Bibliography | |