CRISTY VIVES Girl: The first time we realized that the computer was not only a monitor

and a keyboard.
That between the mouse click, and the video playing, there is something that caught your
attention, understood it, and made it real. What is that?
We make as little and enter to the click of the mouse.
SOFI S Mouse: If I separate me (the mouse) you can see that I am really a very simple
machine. I have a couple bottoms and I have a system for detecting motion and distance.
ISAAC COTES Optical mouse: You can have an optical mouse , me!!, I take
measurements with lights and sensors, but me in older ones did this with a hard rubber
ball and some plastic wheels. But is the same concept.
Girl: When I do a click in a bottom of the mouse
Mouse: I send a message to the computer with an information about its position. When my
click is received.
MARIA CLAUDIA ELJACH Basic input/output subsystem: The click is handled by me
(Basic input/output subsystem), I act like the eyes, ears, mouth and hands of the
computer. Basically, I provide a way for the computer to interact with its environment. But I
also acts like a buffer to keep the CPU from being overwhelmed by distractions. In this
case I decide that the mouse click is pretty important so it generates and interrupt to the
CPU. Hey CPU! Got a click here
SOFIA IGUARAN CPU or Central processing unit: I am the brain of the whole computer.
Just like your brain doesn't take up your whole body, I doesnt take up the whole computer
but I run the show all the same. My job, is whole job, is fetching instructions from memory
and executing them. So while you type, type, type, and type maybe really fast, like 60
words a minute, I am fetching and executing billions of instructions a second. Instructions
to move your mouse around on the screen, to run that clock widget on your desktop, play
your internet radio, manage the files youre editing on the hard drive, and much, much
more. I am one heck of a multitasker. But oh my gosh theres a very important mouse click
coming through now! Lets drop everything now and deal with that!
Girl: There are programs for everything that the CPU does.
Mouse: A special program for me.
Girl: For the clock widget, for the internet radio, and for dealing with letters sent by the
keyboard.
JUAN MANUEL FDC Human: Each program was initially written by me (Human), In a
human-readable programming language, like Java, C++, or Python. But my programs take
up a lot of space and contain a lot of unnecessary information to a computer, so they are
compiled and made smaller and stored in bits of ones and zeros in memory.

CPU : I realized that it needs instructions for how to deal with this mouse click, so I looks
up the address for the mouse program and sends a request to the memory subsystem for
instructions stored there.
Mouse: Each instruction of my device driver is duly fetched and executed.
Girl: Thats not nearly the end of the story because the CPU learns that the mouse was
clicked when the cursor was over a picture of a button on the monitor screen, and so the
CPU asks memory for the monitor program to find out what that button is.
CPU: I had to ask memory for the program for the button, which means that I need the
monitor program.
Mouse: So I can show the video associated with the button, and so it goes.
Girl: Lets just say there are a lot of programs involved before you even see the button on
the screen light up when you clicked it. So, just the simple task of clicking your mouse
means visiting all of the critical components of your computer's architecture: peripherals,
the basic input-output system, the CPU, programs, and memory, and not one gremlin.