2010-10-29, 05:23 PM
2147483647 Wrote:How is a program (C, C++, binary?) able to affect change the properties of a processor? In other words, how do words and letters typed into an interface cause (electricity?, magnetism?, wave signals?) to move within the tiny pieces of metal that make up a computer?The answer to that question takes me 5 years to find. Still 3.5 years left. (If you want a good elaboration as of why this works)
I'm afraid I may reach the character-limit of a post if I try to explain this well. I may as well ask what you know about CPUs and electricity:
Do you know how PMOS and NMOS work? NAND? Latches/Flip-flops? ALU? If not, I could probably try to swiftly learn you how.
2147483647 Wrote:Oh and as a side question, how does an infinite loop destroy the pieces of metal that make up the processor, or cause them to malfunction (in terms of physical processes) so that they are forever destroyed or unusable?More electrons through a wire cause the energy emitted higher and higher. The thing will in the end start melting, and funny thing happens.