{"id":236,"date":"2010-04-04T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T14:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=236"},"modified":"2010-05-31T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T20:03:16","slug":"how-a-computer-works-from-steve-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2010\/04\/how-a-computer-works-from-steve-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Computer Works from Steve Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Security Now<\/em> podcast<\/a> by Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte is doing a wonderful series on how a computer works.\u00a0 Every other week (or so, depending on security news) Steve takes the listeners through a discussion of how a computer works, beginning with first principles, i.e. logic gates.\u00a0 Steve has a talent for making technical topics easy to understand, even without visuals.\u00a0 I think this series is great, and well worth the time for anyone to listen to.<\/p>\n

Computer professionals will enjoy the presentation, and find snippets they’ll use when trying to explain to other people what it is they do for a living.<\/p>\n

Technical hobbyists will find themselves saying “Oh, so that’s why it does that!”<\/p>\n

Non-technical users will learn that it isn’t really a mysterious black box, there are some very simple principles below everything you see.<\/p>\n

Episode List<\/p>\n

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  1. 233: Let’s Design A Computer (Part 1) <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  2. 235: Machine Language<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. 237: Indirection: The Power of Pointers<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. 239: Stacks, Registers & Recursion<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. 241: Hardware Interrupts<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. 247: The Multi verse<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. 250: Operating Systems<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. …(more to come ?)…<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Security Now podcast by Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte is doing a wonderful series on how a computer works.\u00a0 Every other week (or so, depending on security news) Steve takes the listeners through a discussion of how a computer works, beginning with first principles, i.e. logic gates.\u00a0 Steve has a talent for making technical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}