MAN PAGES // WEEK 02
COMPUTERS, INSTRUCTIONS, BINARY · Ch 1 Sec 1-3 + Shannon · six terms · write your own usage line under each
$ man BIT
one binary digit: a single 0 or 1
$ man BYTE
eight bits; enough to hold one character or a number up to 255
$ man BINARY
counting with only two digits, the way hardware does
$ man HARDWARE
the physical machine: chips, drives, screens
$ man SOFTWARE
the instructions the machine runs
$ man INSTRUCTION
one small step a computer executes, in order, very fast