The indispensable PC hardware book : your hardware questions answered / Hans-Peter Messmer.
By: Messmer, Hans-Peter.
Material type: BookPublisher: 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: 004.165Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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)