Friday, March 17, 2000

Janet wrote about her confusion re how computers work.

North_Fork_Trails said...
Hey, so far as I know the transistor acts as a tiny switch, either on or off, either 0 or 1. This allows binary arithmetic and Boolean algebra. Each such binary switch is called a bit, and it is convenient to group eight bits into a byte. With eight bits, then, or one byte, one can represent all the numbers from 0 to 255. For instance, in 24-bit (3-byte) color, typically, red and green and blue each are allowed one byte of data--eight bits. Each of these three colors can assume any value between 0 and 255. This gives over sixteen million combinations, from {0,0,0} to {255,255,255}.In order for all this to work with decent speed and low power consumption, we need transistors, which are very very fast switches. The number of transistors in a computer's CPU is, what, up into the billions? Millions for sure.

Didn't Crystal advise you to actually tackle the pretty boys? I'm sure that's how it's done. Meeting people.
OK Dude 'bye for now.
Te amo.
October 1, 2007 8:58 AM

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