How Microprocessors Work

hello,
The computer you are using to read this page uses a microprocessor to do its work. The microprocessor is the heart of any normal computer, whether it is a desktop machine, a server or a laptop. The microprocessor you are using might be a Pentium, a K6, a PowerPC, a Sparc or any of the many other brands and types of microprocessors, but they all do approximately the same thing in approximately the same way.

A microprocessor -- also known as a CPU or central processing unit -- is a complete computation engine that is fabricated on a single chip. The first microprocessor was the Intel 4004, introduced in 1971. The 4004 was not very powerful -- all it could do was add and subtract, and it could only do that 4 bits at a time. But it was amazing that everything was on one chip. Prior to the 4004, engineers built computers either from collections of chips or from discrete components (transistors wired one at a time). The 4004 powered one of the first portable electronic calculators.
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Your words are wasted on me...

Or we could've just used wikipedia...

*puts a cat in his computer*
I bet it still works! (my cat demonstrated my computer is resistant to fur...)

^ Perhaps it's on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU

Wikipedia has it somewhere

Actually, the truth is that microprocessors work by enslaving quintillions of poor, hapless electrons. They suck in the little buggers by the bucketful outta the wall socket (or battery if a laptop), force them to do menial computations & stuff, then spit them back out exhausted where they die on the positive pole of the generator or battery, every second, just so some numb-nut can play Crysis.

LOSER!

Mine is powered by Squirrels on Crank.




(Yeah. They blow out their hearts every 3 months but they're easy to replace)

Im feeling the upgrade itch...