Computer System

[film]

Hi, i was wondering what is the simplest represntation of a computer system.

I have been told two different ones.

1)Input->process->output

.................Memory

................... ^v

2)Input->process->output

-Thanks

[jool]

1)Input->process->output

.................Memory

................... ^v

Don't really get what you're trying to illustrate here.

Regardless of how I'm supposed to interpret those two I wouldn't call any of them a representation of a computer. To me they seem to be representations of a program running on a computer and not the computer itself.

[moonlit]

Input > Process > Output is the definition of a system...

But the storage part generally comes under processing really... you have to store the data to process it.

[PoyBoy]

Inputs <--> Storage Address in Ram <--> Output --> Input

(keyboard/----^------------------------------------ --> Monitor/Sound/etc

bit value)------|

-----------------|

-----------------v

----------Processing <--> Permanent Storage

--------------------------------------(HDD)

Correct me if im wrong, which i may be

[jool]

It really depends on what you are trying to describe, the actual physical way a computer works or the concept of what a computer is. The concept is a machine that manipulates data based on instructions while the simplified physical computer is cpu, memory, input, output, etc. connected to a system bus.

[cooper]

I believe fetch, execute, store is the formal way this is typically described.

Read up on the Von Neumann Architecture.

[film]

1)Input->process->output

.................Memory

................... ^v

Don't really get what you're trying to illustrate here.

Regardless of how I'm supposed to interpret those two I wouldn't call any of them a representation of a computer. To me they seem to be representations of a program running on a computer and not the computer itself.

.. i meant

1)Input->process->output

OR

................Memory

................... ^v

2)Input->process->output