[plug] Linux & Hardware

[Garry]

The bit in the middle is hardware structures. Discrete components (including those within chips) form counters, registers, gates etc. To get a grasp on this you'll need to study boolean algebra, digital and analog i/o, multvibrators and much much more...

An analogy is wanting to understand a country. You need to look at the material in the building blocks, architecture styles, languages and even politics I guess... Not something you can explore on a given saturday morning..

8^)==

HTH

Garry



On Tue, 6 May 2003 10:24:47 +0800
"James Elliott" <James.Elliott at wn.com.au> 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
> 
>