Is there a better term for this?
- Computer assembly?
- Computer manufacture?
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Once we have Micro Architecture and Instruction Set Architecture,
we can manufacture integrated circuits that do the work. At this
point we start with a pile of chips, capacitors, coils, perhaps a
hard drive, and other bits and bobs, and we end up with something
we recognise as a computer that you can plug into the wall and
install your software on, including the bits where you design your
own motherboard. While most of us are happy to buy our computers
off-the-shelf,
Twitter, Google and Facebook design theirs in-house[->].
At a larger scale, there's the process where you start with a bunch
of servers and cables and a big empty room and end up with a datacentre.
There are apparently
entire books worth of things[->]
to be said about this.
On top of this we install things that let our programs run. It
used to be an Operating System, but now we have another layer
before that:
Lower level:
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Root node:
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Higher level:
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