The Indispensable PC Hardware Book (2nd edition)

You are about to start browsing through a hardware book, the scope of which will amaze you.

You are either a relative newcomer to the field looking for expert advice that will take you from the basics into the internals of the machine, or maybe a systems programmer or hardware engineer looking for that detail of explanation you just haven't been able to find elsewhere. This book is self-contained and guaranteed to answer those burning questions you have about your machine.

Key features to the Second Edition:

- Detailed explanation of core hardware topics including:

• all CPUs; 8086/88 to DX/4 and Pentium
• BIOS and register programming
• all co-processors; 8087 to 1387
• ST412/506, AT bus, IDE, ESDI, SCSI I/II/III
• real, protected and virtual 8086 mode with Pentium enhancements
• interrupts, exceptions and NMI
• RAM, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash memories
• addressing, segmentation and paging
• extended and expanded memory
• page mode, static column mode, serial mode,memory interleaving
• ports, registers and I/0 address space

- Unique coverage of 386 and 486 clones from AMID, Cyrix, C&T and IBM, upgrades, overdrives and SLs

- A description of PC architectures from XT to EISA including MCA, VLB and PCI

- An exploration of mass storage and hard drive interfaces including SCSI, IDE and PCMCIA

- A new chapter devoted to multimedia hardware

- Extensive appendices to provide you with a lasting programming reference