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If you're a new player, you might have already built a few circuits already: an [[Full Adder|adder]], some kind of memory, a [[decoder]]. But getting to the next level where you have a functioning and [[wikipedia:Turing_completeness|turing complete]] computer, is incredibly daunting. This article will serve as a guide to how you might build your first computer. | If you're a new player, you might have already built a few circuits already: an [[Full Adder|adder]], some kind of memory, a [[decoder]]. But getting to the next level where you have a functioning and [[wikipedia:Turing_completeness|turing complete]] computer, is incredibly daunting. This article will serve as a guide to how you might build your first computer. | ||
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If you're a new player, you might have already built a few circuits already: an adder, some kind of memory, a decoder. But getting to the next level where you have a functioning and turing complete computer, is incredibly daunting. This article will serve as a guide to how you might build your first computer.
Every computer follows this simple process:
- A place that stores instructions sends an instruction to the computer.
- The instruction gets decoded by the control, and tells the rest of the computer what to do.
- Sometimes these instructions the Arithmetic and Logic Unit (henceforth, ALU), to operate on data given by the registers.