[Info required] PC Architecture

Alfred Perlstein alfred at freebsd.org
Sat Oct 18 01:07:20 UTC 2008


* Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai at in-nomine.org> [081016 08:06] wrote:
> -On [20081016 16:43], Srinivas (mboxindia at gmail.com) wrote:
> >I have a theoretical understanding of the PC architecture and the
> >details but have no idea of how things go under the hood(for a real
> >computer).
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/0123706068/ - Computer Organization and Design: The
> Hardware/Software Interface by Patterson and Hennessy
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131485210/ - Structured Computer Organization by
> Tanenbaum
> 
> That should answer most, if not all, of your questions on that subject.

I also REALLY like:

The 8088 Project Book
http://www.amazon.com/8088-Project-Book-Robert-Grossblatt/dp/0830631712

Although this isn't a real PC, it will give a nice start in 
case more technical stuff it too much too soon.


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