Sometime around 2009, [J. Clark Scott] published a book aimed to demystify computers for everyone by walking through construction of an 8-bit CPU from scratch. The book had a catchy, but somewhat ...

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Unhackable computer? Do they exist? A CPU is mostly considered as "the brain" of the computer, just like the brains of human beings, as they are responsible for both receiving and executing commands.