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Fetching
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- 1What is fetching?It is when the CPU gets instructions from other places in the computer e.g cashe, hard drive
- 2What is decoding?It is when the CPU turns information into binary
- 3What is executing?It is when the CPU makes the computer complete a task set by instructions
- 4What is a CPUIt controls the computer and fetches, decodes, and executes instructions
- 5What is a core?It is the part of the CPU that does the fetching, decoding and executing.
The CPU can do 1 thing at a time for each core e.g if it has 4 cores it could do 4 things at a time.
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- Year 9 Computing Flashcards on Fetching, created by Henry Labrow on 08/09/2017.
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