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