Computer Science 2500 Computer Organization Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Spring 2009

Agenda

• Announcements
  • No office hours this afternoon.
• Lab continues - ask questions when stuck
• More C and Unix
• vonNeumann architectures
• The MIPS instruction set architecture
  • arithmetic instructions
  • registers and memory

Examples

• reverse

Lecture Assignment

Due at the start of class, Tuesday, January 27.

Turn in short answers to these questions. Please turn in a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK). We will discuss these questions during class, so no late submissions are accepted.

• P&H Exercise 2.1 (be sure you're looking at the 4th edition version), all subparts.

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