Sorry Pranav; I cited the wrong book; On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 13:32 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi Pranav; > > On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 22:22 +0530, Pranav Peshwe wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:29 PM, William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: [snip] > The book that gave me the most assistance, was "Computer Architecture: A > Quantitative Approach" by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, David > Goldberg. This book goes into complete, excruciating detail of how the > CPU, memory management etc functions at the transistor, logic gate, > clocking and register level. Far more detail than you might think you > need. But I found after I had read through its 400 - 500 pages, even if > I only retained about 20%, huge mysteries had been solved and many > kernel questions had become trivial.
To re-cite: The book that gave me the most assistance was "Computer Organization & Design The Hardware / Software Interface", Second Edition; Patterson, David A, Hennessy, John L.;Pub 1998, This book goes into complete, excruciating detail of how the CPU, memory management,pipelining etc functions at the transistor, logic gate, clocking and register level. Far more detail than you might think you need. But I found after I had read through its 400 - 500 pages, even if I only retained about 20%, huge mysteries had been solved and many kernel questions had become trivial. -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
