Megaprocessor Computerphile

Summary

Walk around inside a working processor and see all the components operating. Jason Fitzpatrick shows us the Centre for ... 30 years ago, Acorn Computers switched on their first ever processor, the Acorn RISC Machine, or ARM. Now, they power 95% of ... Our local Centre for Computing History has had this amazing thing built, see this They're called 'Finite State Automata" and occupy the centre of Chomsky's Hierarchy - Professor Brailsford explains the ultimate ... James Newman shows us round his amazing The number of virtual machines has swelled due to cloud computing & changes to the X86 processor, but what are Virtual ... I've finished building and testing the After the multi-processor video we look at processors that are central-ish.... Dr Steve Bagley takes apart the old IBM PC. EXTRA ... Bug Byte puzzle here - bit.ly/4bnlcb9 - and apply to Jane Street programs here - bit.ly/3JdtFBZ (episode sponsor). Relatively speedy-to-access cache saves your computer having to trudge over to the RAM, but with multiple levels of cache ... Spectre refers to a whole family of potential weaknesses of which Meltdown is just one. Dr Steve Bagley talks about CPU ... The story of recursion continues as Professor Brailsford explains one of the most difficult programs to compute: Ackermann's ... What's going on when we search for *.docx? Dr Steve Bagley talks us through wild cards. EXTRA BITS: ... Play around with one of the first Von Neumann machines (well, in simulation!) Professor Brailsford shows us what EDSAC was ...