Today we'll take a quick look at how a simple operating system uses the hardware to create the illusion of doing multiple things simultaneously. Slides for today.

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Today we'll talk about the benefits and implementation of virtual memory. Readings for today are 5.4 and 5.5. Slides for today.

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Today we'll talk about how to organize our cache for maximum effectiveness. Slides for today. Readings include 5.3 and 5.5.

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We'll try to squeeze in two topics: issues that make pipelining less ideal that it might seem and memory hierarchy. Slides for today. Readings for today are in 4.6 to 4.8 and chapter 5.

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Today we'll discuss ways to make our computer go faster using parallelism. Slides for today. Readings for today are 4.5 through 4.8.

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In this lecture we will attempt to assemble a fairly complete implementation of the MIPS ISA in a single lecture. Slides for this lecture. Readings for this lecture are in section 4.1 to 4.4.

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In this lecture we'll talk about how we control activities that require multiple steps. That will lead to controlling execution of instructions. Slides for today. Readings include C-8 and C-10.

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Today we will discover how our computers store data. Slides for today. Readings for today are in C-7 through C-9.

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Today we'll momentarily leave our discussion of hardware to talk about measuring computer performance. Slides for today. The reading for this lecture is in section 1.4.

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Today we'll learn how floating point arithmetic works. Slides for today. Reading for today is section 3.5 and skim 3.6-3.8.

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