Episode 95
Episode 95: How Computers Work Part V - Assembly Language and the Operating System
The Science of Everything Podcast
February 13, 20181h 11m
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Show Notes
In this the fifth episode of the series 'how computers work', I begin with a summary of some of the major methods of improving the performance of the central processing unit, including pipelining, cache memory, branch prediction, and parallel processing. Following a brief introduction to assembly langague and its relationship to the machine code, I then discuss the operating system and how it interfaces with the hardware to manage program memory, system calls, input/output, and processes.