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CONTENTS

LESSON 1. Specialists of computer engineering……………….5
TEXT 1. Computer engineering …………………………..5
TEXT 2. Computer engineers ……………………………..6
LESSON 2. History and tendencies of development of
computer hardware…………..................................9
TEXT 1. The first computers and technologies……………9
TEXT 2. Useful ideas……………………………………..11
TEXT 3. The history of modern computing ……………...13

LESSON 3. Computer architecture………………………….....16
TEXT 1. The term of computer architecture……………...16
TEXT 2. Basic subcategories of computer architecture…..18
TEXT 3. A modeling language……………………………20

LESSON 4. Computer performance..………………………….23
TEXT 1. Computer performance earlier and nowadays….23
TEXT 2. Measurement of computer performance………...25
LESSON 5. Principles of work and processor architecture…...27
TEXT 1. Principles of work of processors………………...27
TEXT 2. Modern processor design………………………..28

LESSON 6. Principle of work and structure of
computer memory………………………………….31
TEXT 1. Structure of computer memory…………………..31
TEXT 2. Types of primary and secondary storage………...33

LESSON 7. Principles of input-output system structure………37
TEXT 1. Input devices..…………………………………....37
TEXT 2. Output devices…………………………………...39

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