[plug] Linux & Hardware

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 6 May 2003, James Elliott wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 10:24:47 +0800
> From: James Elliott <James.Elliott at wn.com.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Linux & Hardware
> Resent-Date: Tue,  6 May 2003 10:24:56 +0800 (WST)
> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 

Have you looked at the book "PC Architecture & Assembly Language"? 
Whilst it is DOS and Windows based, it gives a fairly good insight into 
the interaction between the one's and zero's and the hardware.

Also, possibly the "Peter Norton's PC Programmer's Bible", may be 
useful.

The Waite Group's C Bible also includes some good information about what 
the hardware does with the instructions.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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