Part 4 of 6 in the series: Computer Hardware Basics– The speed of a computer processor, or CPU, is determined by the clock cycle, which is the amount of time between two pulses of an oscillator. [...]
Part 3 of 6 in the series: Computer Hardware BasicsComputers work in binary (explained more fully in the box below): they either know something or they don’t—and once they’ve learned, barring some sort of catastrophic failure. [...]