Hi Greg,
On 2014-10-07 14:35, Gregg Levine wrote:
[..]
It contains several sadly retired part numbers in the book, and of
course
What do you mean with "part numbers" .. chapters? If so, does the whole
sentence
mean that this book has chapters on obsolete topics?
the members of the original series of system members.
What is this "original serie of system members" ? (I googled a bit but
found nothing related)
It largely talks about the actual beginning entries, the 8086 itself,
and
others. People here would find it useful because it still describes
useful ideas.
Even Intel is realizing that the retired the X86 working entries in
the series too early, that's why the QUARK family is out now.
Also here, what does "retiring a working entry" mean?
Bye, and thanks a lot!
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Aaron Durbin <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
do you mean that no book (that you know) talks about x86 systems?
Some books do, no single book covers the 35+ years of legacy which is
still very much present in the latest x86 hardware.
I'll definitely echo what Peter said. There are the intel manuals:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html
While those are good, there are a lot of quirky things that are chip
specific that aren't covered. And as Peter said there is a lot of
legacy.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Indispensable-Hardware-Book-Edition/dp/0201596164/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1412688038&sr=8-2
That one is very much oriented to BIOS and PCs proper. There are some
gems in there, but I wouldn't go to that if one wanted to understand
computer architecture.
-Aaron
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