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Il moderno elaboratore e il sistema binario

Il moderno elaboratore e il sistema binario   L’elaboratore moderno viene definito come un sistema elettronico digitale programmabile: sistema: costituito da componenti (input, output, memoria, scheda madre, processore, …) che interagiscono in modo organico tra loro; elettronico digitale: sfrutta componenti elettronici digitali come i transistor; programmabile: il comportamento del sistema è flessibile e specificato mediante un programma, ossia un insieme sequenziale di istruzioni finite ed univocamente interpretabili codificate in un determinato linguaggio di programmazione. Le componenti di un elaboratore moderno si dividono in cinque categorie: dispositivi di input; dispositivi di output; memoria; unità di elaborazione dati (ALU); unità di controllo. Le ultime due componenti sono raggruppate in un’unica componente detta processore. Il processore, realizzato con milioni di piccoli componenti elementari (transistor), è considerato il cuore di un elaboratore elettronico. Al...

The Second World War (summary)

   When George V died in 1936, his son Edward VIII became king of England. The new king abdicated after only ten months in order to marry an American woman, who had divorced, and his brother George VI ovent to the throne ruling country during World war. Because of Versailles' treaty signed in June 1919, Germany underwent a terrible economic crisis in the 1920s, which helped the Nazi Party's rise to the power. In order to avoid another world war, Britain ignored the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), the occupation of Austria by Hitler (1938) and Czechoslovakia, thankin Munich Agreement signed by Britain and France with Germany. When Germany invaded Poland on the 1st of September 1939 France and Britain declared war on Germany. In this way World War II broke out. In the first phase of the conflict Germany occupied France and most European countries, Italy entered the war on Germany's side (1940) and the United States were still neutral. In 1940 Britain had to bear the brunt of the...

Robert Louis Stevenson

  Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850 and attended Edinburgh University, where he studied before engineering and then law. However, he decided to become a professional writer, going against family expectations. Moreover , he rebelled against his father’s Calvinist religion. Several trips and travels abroad due to his consumption asserted literary tendencies of Stevenson: in 1873 Stevenson went to the French Riviera and undertook a canoe tour in Belgium (1876) and described it in An inland voyage (1878). Then he moved to California where he met a woman, Frances Osbourne, and they got married. The travel memoir The Silverado squatters written in 1883   is the result of his stay in California. He collected essays, short stories and fragments, which were published in periodicals: Virginibus puerisque (1881); The new Arabian nights (1882); Familiar studies of men and books (1882) are some examples. In 1884 they returned to England for three years. His f...