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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