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" -- "No one had the guts... until now!" $anjay $ingh Fire & "Ice" ssingh@watserv1.[u]waterloo.{edu|cdn}/[ca] ROBOTRON Hi-Score: 20 Million Points | A new level of (in)human throughput... "The human race is inefficient and therefore must be destroyed."-Eugene Jarvis