How computer works?

[Templ]

Ok, can you guys plase tell me if i got this right:

The computer first translates a process into mathematical terms by rendering all relevant information into the binary base-two numeral system (ones and zeros). Then, all operations are reduced to simple Boolean algebra. All those Boolean operations are calculated by Electronic cicuits which are in every computer component.

So, i belive it goes like this: The data travels through computer. It starts by clicking on a mouse or pressing a keyboard button. The circuits in the mouse start calculating the operations and then send it through a cable into a motherboard where there are more circuits. Through those circuits the Boolean operations are sent into a processor and from there into other components and at last into a graphic card. When the computer is finished calculating, the result is displayed on a monitor.

Is this correct or am i missing something?

 

[TuxDave]

Close enough

 

[Bassyhead]

Thats pretty much all a computer is, a bunch of logic operations that are programmable by software.

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

IF you are interested in learning about this, I would suggest Charles Petzold's book Code

Execellent book on explaining computer ciruit design and how a computer works.

 

[nomadwind]

Basics are correct. If you're interested in going a bit deeper, read up on logic circuits, and additionally on basic transistor switching (google it). After that you'll really marvel at computer hardware which are really just a whole interpreted solution of 1's and 0's.

 

[randym431]

Think of it as a big file cabinet.

 

[itachi]

with a fast calculator attached to it.

http://www.csg.csail.mit.edu/6.823/handouts.html
if u can read and understand all that.. then you'll know how a computer works.
read up on vlsi, and you'll know why they don't.

 

[Templ]

Thanks.. i'll be sure to check those sites.