[plug] Linux & Hardware

[Luke Dudney]

On 06/05/03 10:24, James Elliott wrote:

>Does anyone know a good Internet site to go to learn more about how hardware
>works?  I think one could better understand the structure and function of
>Linux if one had a better idea of what goes on when Linux commands are
>reduced to "0"s and "1"s and sent to the CPU, or to memory, or elsewhere on
>the mainboard or EIDE devices.
>
>It seems to me that there are experts on differing software bundles;  on
>various operating systems; and I guess electronic engineers know about
>chips, transistors, resistors, capacitors and things like that, if not the
>software that runs on them; but there does not  seem to be a book or course
>or Internet site that I have been able to find that covers both hardware and
>software and how they interact with each other.
>
>James Elliott
>
>  
>

I'd recommend you get a textbook that covers an introduction to computer 
science. Check the booklists of some university CS units. You could 
probably go down to that university's secondhand bookshop and pick up 
and old edition fairly cheaply.

Cheers
Luke