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OCR: 5.20 COM PUT EP ARCHITECTU Clock Ra te What does the date and time have to do with CPU performance? computer contains system clo ck that ermits pulses to establish the timing for all systerm operations The system clock not the same as "real-time clock' that keeps track of the time of The system clock sets the speed or "frequency" for data transport and instruction execution. To understand how this works, v isualize team 0 oarsmen on Viking ship. The ship': coxswain beats on drum t to coordinate the rowers computer's system and ship's coxswain accomplish essentially the same task -thev set the pace activ Boom! stream of bits takes off from RAM pue heads to the CPU. Boom! The control unit reads an instruction. Boom! The ALU adds two numbers together Tie rate set by the system determines the ...