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Date:      Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:47:27 -0600
From:      darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where software meets hardware..
Message-ID:  <200706231147.27955.bulliver@badcomputer.org>
In-Reply-To: <84FEA104-C7A0-4CED-A515-97249F7FECC9@ketralnis.com>
References:  <200706211633.l5LGXWvG095148@lurza.secnetix.de> <84FEA104-C7A0-4CED-A515-97249F7FECC9@ketralnis.com>

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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
-- 
darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972



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