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Title:
The indispensable PC hardware book
Author:
Messmer, Hans-Peter.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
PC-Handwarebuch. English
Edition:
Fourth edition.
Publication Information:
Boston : Addison-Wesley, 2002.
Physical Description:
xx, 1273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780201596168
Format :
Book
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Library | Call Number | Material Type | Home Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Library | TK7887.5 .M4613 2002 | Adult Non-Fiction | Central Closed Stacks | Searching... |
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Summary
Summary
This manual offers a detailed explanation of every aspect of PC hardware. It should be useful to both newcomers to the field and veteran systems programmers, and covers topics such as disk to DVD storage, ports, cache-organization, and realmode. This fourth edition has been updated, with outdated material deleted and every chapter brought up-to-date to 2001. There is a new chapter on Pentium 2 and MMX technologies.
Author Notes
Hans-Peter Messmer is a physicist who for many years has worked as a freelance consultant in the hardware and software industries.
Table of Contents
| Part 1 Basics | p. 1 |
| 1 The main components of a PC | p. 1 |
| Part 2 The PC's microprocessors | p. 53 |
| 2 Introduction to microprocessor technology | p. 53 |
| 3 Everything began with the ancestor 8086 | p. 69 |
| 4 Downwards compatibility - the 80286 | p. 82 |
| 5 Introduction to the world of 32-bit computing - the 80386 | p. 94 |
| 6 Programing and operating types | p. 128 |
| 7 Quick buffering: caching | p. 184 |
| 8 All in one - the i486 | p. 201 |
| 9 Coprocessors and 386/486 CPU clones | p. 246 |
| 10 The Pentium | p. 288 |
| 11 Pentium-compatible microprocessors | p. 365 |
| 12 Pure 32-bit technology - the Pentium Pro | p. 405 |
| 13 Pentium II, Pentium III, and Celeron | p. 455 |
| 14 The Athlon | p. 473 |
| Part 3 Memory, chipsets, and support chips | p. 491 |
| 15 Memory chips: the computer's memory | p. 491 |
| 16 Chipsets | p. 533 |
| 17 Hardware interrupts and DMA | p. 557 |
| 18 CMOS RAM and realtime clock | p. 602 |
| 19 The timer and other peripheral chips | p. 614 |
| Part 4 Personal computer architectures and bus systems | p. 635 |
| 20 The 8-bit PC/XT architecture | p. 635 |
| 21 16-bit architecture | p. 647 |
| 22 EISA architecture | p. 662 |
| 23 Microchannel | p. 682 |
| 24 The VESA local bus (VLB) | p. 701 |
| 25 The PCI bus | p. 715 |
| 26 ISA PlugandPlay | p. 773 |
| 27 Accelerated graphics port and 3-D graphics | p. 786 |
| Part 5 Mass storage and its interfaces | p. 802 |
| 28 Floppies and floppy drives | p. 802 |
| 29 Hard disks | p. 871 |
| 30 SCSI | p. 911 |
| 31 Optical mass storage | p. 935 |
| Part 6 External and peripheral devices | p. 949 |
| 32 The parallel port | p. 949 |
| 33 The serial port | p. 968 |
| 34 The keyboard, mouse, and joystick | p. 1004 |
| 35 Universal serial bus | p. 1038 |
| 36 Local networks | p. 1043 |
| 37 Graphics adapters | p. 1058 |
| Appendices | p. 1117 |
| A ASCII and scan codes | p. 1117 |
| B Interrupts and DMA | p. 1124 |
| C Accessing ports | p. 1128 |
| D Access to keyboard and mouse | p. 1136 |
| E The commands of the (E)IDE interface (ATA) | p. 1152 |
| F SCSI Commands | p. 1169 |
| G Glossary | p. 1215 |
| Index | p. 1265 |