How Computers Store Data Serially Computerphile

Summary

Relatively speedy-to-access cache saves your computer having to trudge over to the RAM, but with multiple levels of cache ... Deleting files may not mean they're gone. Even overwriting them isn't safe. Professor Derek McAuley explains. EXTRA BITS ... Discussing "Real" Programmers from the early days of Build a virtual switching network inside your own computer. Dr Richard G Clegg of Queen Mary University London demonstrates ... Inside one of the mysterious buildings that holds petabytes of Bubbles in the pipeline? Some of the basic operations at the heart of the CPU explained by Dr Steve Bagley. EXTRA BITS: ... How can a file take up no space on disk? Dr Steve Bagley explains how '0' size files can exist. Magnetic Media (Floppies ... Derek McAuley is professor of Digital Economy at University of Nottingham's School of Computer Science. Main "Security of Why do we have 8 bits in a byte? Professor Brailsford on the origins of the humble byte. Why Use Binary? Search Engines are a bit the Public Library - You wouldn't wander around hoping to find the book you want, there's a system ... With the news Apple are implementing Virtual Memory on the iPad, Dr Steve Bagley takes us through what virtual memory is and ...