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Compilers Autumn 2002 Hardware Organization Outline Four hardware components Processor Main memory Peripherals (I/O devices) Connections (buses) Suggested reading 1.4~1.6 Hardware Organization Buses Carry bytes of information back and forth between the components Word(4 bytes, 8 bytes) I/O devices Keyboard, Mouse Display Disk driver (long-term storage device) Controller, adapter Hardware Organization Main Memory Temporary storage device Holds both a program and the data while the processor is executing the program Physically, it is a collection of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) chips Logi