Part 6: Infrastructure
Imagine someone asking you if you'd like a Rolex for free. As soon as you nod your head and hold out your hands, he empties a box of tiny gears, levers, cams, and a pair of watch hands into your palms.
“It's kind of a kit,” he laughs, like a mad hatter after a tea party.
That's where we've left your understanding of computer hardware. We've talked about all the parts but haven't bothered to put them all together. Worse, we haven't even discussed what holds them all together and gives them what they need to work.
It's not jam or jelly. In this book, we'll call it your computer's infrastructure, because it holds everything together and supplies what you need, much like the infrastructure of a city—the roads, utility wires, ...
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