Computer Science 237 Computer Organization Williams College Fall 2006

Agenda

• Announcements
  • Lab meeting today or tomorrow, this week in TCL 216. You may attend either lab session, regardless of your registration.
• Counting in binary
• Number representations
  • bit, byte, nibble, word, longword, quadword, octaword
  • bit and byte significance, endianness
• Character representations
  • ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode
  • bit and byte significance, endianness
• Memory model and pointers

Examples

• show_bytes
• ascii(7) - the Unix man page entry in section 7 of the manual

Links

• Google search results for the term "byte"