Hardware Components

• External Components:
  • System Unit
    • Motherboard, Disks, Network Connection, Power Supply
  • Monitor
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
• Motherboard
  • CPU (ALU, control units, registers, See Fritz Ruehr's simulator), memory (cache, RAM, ROM), bus(es), graphics cards, ....
• Disks
  • Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, CD ROM, DVD, Zip Disks, etc

Memory Hierarchy