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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
CONTINUITY: Vacuum Tube Computer Part 17: Arithmetic/Logic Unit
Finally, all of the previously design, built, and tested pieces of the computer begin to come together at its heart: the unit which performs the arithmetic or logic operation designated by an instruction. This is simpler than you might imagine, as it consists mostly of selecting a result among multiple logic inputs that compute the results of the various functions, all of which have been previously constructed.
Posted at September 14, 2021 11:32