Re: Where software meets hardware.. (Hello World program dissected)

2007-06-27 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hello Mark, I'd like to try and move your understanding on - your enthusiasm is infectious. In this reply I can only touch on the topics that you raise. I would wholeheartedly recommend getting a copy of Hennersy Patterson mentioned in another post - it is excellent. The first thing I

Re: Where software meets hardware.. (Hello World program dissected)

2007-06-24 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, To fully understand things, here's another scenario. A Hello World program. This time I'm going to dissect all the processes, as far as I can. Upon boot up, electric charge fills some capacitors in the memory in a certain pattern of charged and not charged (1 and 0). The pattern that was