On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:02:23 -0500, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Read at least the mindshare books on ISA and PCI. Let me warn you that the >mindshare books are very complementary and for one to be able to fully grasp >their content you really should buy and read them all. This will set you back >a few hundred $$$ but it is the de-facto standard on PC architecture. FWIW, >PnP is dead and no longer relevant. It made sense in the old ISA + PCI days >but now it really is redundant. If you read some books that I'll link you to >and read the PnP spec you might actually get what its all about. > >Examples: >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201309742/qid=1126929191/sr=8-8/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-5807367-4514550?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201409968/qid=1126929191/sr=8-14/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i7_xgl14/102-5807367-4514550?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 > >Some other very valuable reading: >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201479508/qid=1126929494/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-5807367-4514550?v=glance&s=books >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201398583/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/102-5807367-4514550?v=glance&s=books >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201596164/qid=1126929659/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5807367-4514550?v=glance&s=books > >/marco Thanks Marco. The whole MindShare PC Architecture Series looks like a good read. They even have one on particularly on PnP: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201410133/qid=1126933452/sr=1-14/ref=sr_1_14/102-8201060-2382550?v=glance&s=books JCR
