The actual bricks, cement, and electrical wiring used to build it. 🛠️ 2. Core Components of Computer Architecture
Dictates how numbers, characters, and logical values are encoded as binary digits within the hardware. Predominant Design Philosophies:
While people often use the terms interchangeably, they refer to different levels of computer design. Architecture acts as the abstract blueprint (the programmer's view), and organization is the physical realization of that blueprint (the hardware implementation). 🏗️ 1. Computer Architecture vs. Computer Organization