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How computers work, from the atom up (2011)
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- MichaelZuo 3y agoThe answer doesn’t actually lay out how electricity flowing through a bunch of NAND gates physically causes the computer/CPU to begin booting up. There’s always a step missing in these types of answers, step n: electricity begins to flow through gates step n+1: ??? step n+2: Microcode execution begins Presumably in step n+1 something happens to the chip, more than just heating it up, that causes a regular pattern which we would call the very first step of microcode booting up.
- gautamsomani 3y agoHi. OP here. Can you please point to any link or resource which covers this n+1 step? Will be helpful for beginners. Thanks in advance.