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Machine Architecture
A computer is comprised of many hardware components working together. From a physical and visual perspective, we see drives, a motherboard, video card, sound card, a power supply, and the central processing unit (CPU). Each of these components perform certain specific tasks and communicate via the data path edged onto the mother board. They are all important in the sense that a a healthy, working computer requires most, if not all, of these hardware components.
A CPU is given the most attention because it is deemed to be the brain of all operations. It is responisible for executing instructions as well as dictating the flow of operations in the computer. The complexity of a CPU is astonishing, a modern one contains millions of transistors. The transistors work together seemlessly to accomplish a task.
Machine Architecture Guide - Very good site about data storage, gates and circuits, and the CPU.
