Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ssingh
From: ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu (The Sanj-Machine aka Ice)
Subject: Advice on understanding PC architecture...
Message-ID: <1991Jan13.015333.26891@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: motherboards, buses, CPU's, etc
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 91 01:53:33 GMT
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Hello,

I know this group is populated mostly by engineers so I was wondering
if some kind soul could recommend to me a book or set of books that
would give me the skill to fully understand the design of AT-compatible
systems.

It is frustrating when terms get thrown around like page-mode interleaving,
wait state, bus mastering, DMA channel, NEAT chipset, BIOS and many
other such terms. Often half-truths get mixed in with folklore and make
a normally precise and coherent discipline terribly inconsistent.

I don't know who to believe when conflicting claims are made about one
systems throughput when compared to another. I still don't know about
Everex's AMMA for example...

I'm sure people out there know all this stuff and I'm hoping some are here.

Please offer some advice on how I can learn about PC systems quickly and
in such a manner that I can quickly assimilate new concepts as they
happen.

Thanks in Advance.

Sanjay Singh aka "Ice"

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