System Architecture
Let's study the architecture of modern systems to get a better understanding of how they work.
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Prototypical system architecture
To begin our discussion, let’s look at a “classical” diagram of a typical system, given below.
The picture shows a single CPU attached to the main memory of the system via some kind of memory bus or interconnect. Some devices are connected to the system via a general I/O bus, which in many modern systems would be PCI (or one of its many derivatives); graphics and some other higher-performance I/O devices might be found here. Finally, even lower down are one or more of what we call a ...
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