Chapter 5

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Chapter 4

1. List at least five components of a typical computer system.

   System unit, speakers, monitor, hard disk drive, floppy disk drive, memory, etc....

2. What device do the peripheral components of a computer system exist to support?

   Processor or Microprocessor

3. From what two perspectives can programs be viewed? How does each perspective differ from the other?

   The computer perspective and the human perspective

4. List the nine phases of the C++ translation process.

   

5. What are the function of trigraphs?

   Trigraphs are used by programmers to write source code on terminals that lack the special characters required by the basic source character set.

6. What is a C++ translation unit?

   A translation unit consists of a source file, its headers and any source files included via the #include preprocessor directive, minus any source lines skipped by conditional compilation.

7. List and describe the four steps of the processing cycle?

   Fetch - Fetch an instruction from memory

   Decode - Translate the instruction into electronic signals that control the processor

   Execute - Carry out the operations required by the instruction

   Store - Store the results of the instruction in memory

8. State in your own words the definition of an algorithm.

   A recipe for solving a problem.

9. How does a processor's architecture serve to implement its feature set?

   A processor's architecture dictates what features the processor offers.

10. How can programmers access a processor's feature set?

    Via the processor's assembly language.

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