I want to say that earlier editions of “Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective” had a bunch of discussions of buses etc in addition to assembly, compilers, linking, etc. but the edition I have explicitly calls out that they felt like it wasn’t important to have chapters on anymore :(
> On Nov 19, 2017, at 2:29 AM, Huw Davies via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > >> On 19 Nov 2017, at 10:57, Eric Christopherson via cctalk >> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> Basically, I'm looking for a certain book (although really any book in >> the same vein would satisfy), which was on computer system architecture, >> organization, etc.; it talked about the usual boolean logic, assembly >> programming in some fictitious instruction set, an overview of two >> actual architectures (I think at that time they were 32-bit x86 and >> 64-bit POWER). The other thing I remember very specifically was there >> was a place near the back (probably an appendix) that talked about >> one or more specific buses (I think at least PCI was there), with timing >> diagrams to tell you what was actually going back and forth between the >> bus and CPU. >> > > Sounds like either > > Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by David Patterson and John > Hennessy > > Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface by David > Patterson and John Hennessy > > I see there’s a MIPS edition of the second book. My copy of the second book > has Hennessy as the first author. > > Time for a re-read - it’s been a while since I read both of them. > > Huw Davies | e-mail: huw.dav...@kerberos.davies.net.au > Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the > Australia | air, the sky would be painted green" >
