Where software meets hardware..

[darren kirby]

quoth the David King:
> > If you want to know more details about how a processor
> > access data in memory, how address bus and data bus
> > works, how a processor is built up from transistor
> > functions, I strongly recommend that you buy a good
> > beginners book of processor design.
>
> Do you have any recommendations?

"Computer Organization and Design" by Patterson and Hennessy
ISBN 1-55860-604-1

...is one I'm working through right now. Reasonably priced at ~$50 for 620 
pages and about half as many more on the CDROM.  As an added bonus you will 
learn Mips assembly.

-d
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