Computer Science 220
Assembly Language & Computer Architecture

Fall 2010, Siena College

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Agenda

• Announcements
• Unix Tip of the day: the & and job control
• Lecture assignment recap
• Floating point representations
• vonNeumann architectures
• The MIPS instruction set architecture
  • arithmetic instructions

Lecture Assignment 04

Due at the start of class, Tuesday, September 21.

Please submit answers to these questions either as a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK) or by email to jteresco AT siena.edu by the start of class. We will discuss these questions at the start of class, so no late submissions are accepted.

1. True or false: 0.1 (base 10) can be represented as a floating point number within the computer. Justify your answer.

Examples

• shiftyproduct