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authorEkaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>2024-08-24 20:06:02 +0200
committerEkaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>2024-08-24 20:06:02 +0200
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%% information and builds the first part of the formatted document.
\maketitle
-\section{Motivation}
+\section{Context}
+%% We need to understand context ...
+ All engineering decisions are taken in a context and those that are adopted
+ by any industry are oftentimes driven by previous decisions taken in the same
+ subject. Specifically, the computing industry, arguably due to its rapid
+ emergence, has been heavily influenced by previous technology and
+ \textit{backwards compatibility}. Reviewing the most influential ideas of
+ computing one can obtain valuable information to be able to criticise current
+ computing systems and propose pioneering alternatives.
\subsection{Von Neumann model}
The von Neummann model introduced in 1945 proposes a general purpose device
consisting of a \textit{Central Processing Unit} (CPU) and a \textit{Store}.
-
The \textit{Store} is often implemented as a \textit{Random Access Memory}
(RAM or, simply, \textit{memory}), which stores data in bytes, each of them
with an \textit{address}, in a tabulated fashion.