July 14th, 2011 14:18

How do computers work

‘What exactly is a computer?’ is the first question anybody should ask themselves before accepting any answer as given.

Other questions, can they reason, can they understand and act on impulse? At the moment in time that involves ‘forward thinking’, not simply following instructions which is all they do.

Machine instructions – better known as machine code – are basic mnemonics that make up a sequence of operations.

For example performing calculations on a series of values stored in memory involves maintainance of the location of the values; clean operation at the outset and performance of each iteration in the loop requires thorough testing before the code is deployed.

Remember, the emphasis is instructions not thinking. Computers follow instructions and do not perform requests because the latter means forward thinking which is impossible for a computer.

Or maybe possible for some to understand and not for others. Or rather what the bl@@p does the world indeed know about computers. Are you really aware that there is no specifically defined method behind the art of computer logic.

Maths has standard text book theory behind the syntax and method of applied query and extraction of solutions that are practicable. Computer logic is all about trial and error; fun nevertheless.

However, did you really know that the operation of the computer is based on a very small number of basic operations that have nothing to do with mathematics.

They involve six basic comparisons of a pair of inputs, each input being true or false. The seventh gate simply outputs the flipped state of the input. The output from the six gates depend on their particular rules.

So we have 13 inputs and 7 outputs. The output lines inevitably become inputs and that put basically is how computers work.

That’s it and to understand it you have to reduce your concentration to the macro-level to see where each of the seven gates lead.

That number does crop up doesn’t it, and the one you all hate nothing more is the seven deadly sins, they must also be related with the seven gates, maybe the seven gates to hell…

Another one comes to mind; the world evolves around money which means number crunching, obviously maths. But if computers are the hub in the core of world economics when they do not operate mathematically what are they doing?

It is like using rattlesnakes instead of bubble wrap for packaging.


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