Hello! According to Intel some of the part numbers that reference older operating systems were retired by the company. You might find them for sale at places who support older systems for example.
To answer your question, the entire series of part numbers that the 8086 family belong to were retired by Intel sometime ago. The responding part numbers or names happen to be the QUARK one.
To gain better insight I suggest you find a copy of that text. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:09 PM, prasnik@anche.no wrote:
Hi Greg,
On 2014-10-07 14:35, Gregg Levine wrote: [..]
It contains several sadly retired part numbers in the book, and of course
What do you mean with "part numbers" .. chapters? If so, does the whole sentence mean that this book has chapters on obsolete topics?
the members of the original series of system members.
What is this "original serie of system members" ? (I googled a bit but found nothing related)
It largely talks about the actual beginning entries, the 8086 itself, and others. People here would find it useful because it still describes useful ideas.
Even Intel is realizing that the retired the X86 working entries in the series too early, that's why the QUARK family is out now.
Also here, what does "retiring a working entry" mean?
Bye, and thanks a lot!
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org wrote:
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
prasnik@anche.no wrote:
do you mean that no book (that you know) talks about x86 systems?
Some books do, no single book covers the 35+ years of legacy which is still very much present in the latest x86 hardware.
I'll definitely echo what Peter said. There are the intel manuals:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-dev...
While those are good, there are a lot of quirky things that are chip specific that aren't covered. And as Peter said there is a lot of legacy.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Indispensable-Hardware-Book-Edition/dp/0201596164/...
That one is very much oriented to BIOS and PCs proper. There are some gems in there, but I wouldn't go to that if one wanted to understand computer architecture.
-Aaron
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