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The indispensable PC hardware book : your hardware questions answered / Hans-Peter Messmer.

By: Messmer, Hans-Peter.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Wokingham, England ; Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co, c1995Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xxiv, 1311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0201876973.Contained works: Messmer, Hans-Peter. PC-Handwarebuch. English.Subject(s): Computer input-output equipment | MicrocomputersDDC classification: 004.165
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This work anwers user's questions about their PCs, providing expert advice. It contains detailed explanations of core hardware topics including all CPUs, all co-processors, real, protected and virtual 8086 mode with Pentium enhancements, extended and expanded memory, interrupts, exceptions, NMI and much more. This edition also features: coverage of 386 and 486 clones from AMD, Cyrix, C&T and IBM, upgrades, overdrives and SLs; a new chapter devoted to multimedia; and extensive appendices which provide a programming reference. integrators, maintenance and support engineers.

Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 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)

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