ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu (The Sanj-Machine aka Ice) (01/13/91)
Hello,
I know this group is populated mostly by engineers so I was wondering
if some kind soul could recommend to me a book or set of books that
would give me the skill to fully understand the design of AT-compatible
systems.
It is frustrating when terms get thrown around like page-mode interleaving,
wait state, bus mastering, DMA channel, NEAT chipset, BIOS and many
other such terms. Often half-truths get mixed in with folklore and make
a normally precise and coherent discipline terribly inconsistent.
I don't know who to believe when conflicting claims are made about one
systems throughput when compared to another. I still don't know about
Everex's AMMA for example...
I'm sure people out there know all this stuff and I'm hoping some are here.
Please offer some advice on how I can learn about PC systems quickly and
in such a manner that I can quickly assimilate new concepts as they
happen.
Thanks in Advance.
Sanjay Singh aka "Ice"
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