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also known as a CPU or central processing unit is a complete computation engine that is fabricated on a single chip.
What is Microprocessor
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sends an address to memory
What is Address bus
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Which of the traditional five senses are dolphins believed not to possess?
What is smell?
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a small, thin piece of silicon onto which the transistors making up the microprocessor have been etched
What is a chip?
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In what type of restaurant would you typically find the condiment wasabi?
What is Japanese
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the maximum rate that the chip can be clocked at
What is clock speed?
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can send data to memory or receive data from memory
What is Data bus
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The Chihuahua is a breed of dog believed to originate from what country? Hide Answer
What is Mexico?
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the native language of a microprocessor
What is assembly language?
200
Sauerkraut is made from what finely cut vegetable?
What is cabbage
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Is the width of the ALU.
What is data width
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tells the memory whether it wants to set or get the addressed location
What is RD (read) and WR (write) line
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What is the national animal of Scotland?
What is a unicorn
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First microprocessor
What is Intel 4004
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What is the term for a rotating tray often often placed on a table to aid in distributing food?
What is a lazy susan?
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Millions of instructions per second, a rough measure of the performance of a CPU.
What is MIPS?
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lets a clock pulse sequence the processor
What is Clock line
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A flamboyance is a group of what animal?
What is flamingo?
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First microprocessor to make it into a home computer
What is Intel 8080
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The cooking technique that involves submerging food in a liquid at a relatively low temperature is called what?
What is poaching
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The width, in ? of the smallest wire on the chip
What is microns
500
resets the program counter to zero (or whatever) and restarts execution
What is Reset line
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What is the sleepiest animal in the world, sleeping around 22 hours each day?
What is the koala
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the year that the processor was first introduced
What is Date
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Mr. Pibb was a soft drink created by the Coca-Cola Company to compete with what other soft drink?
What is Dr. Pepper
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