Title:PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
URL:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/059600513X
ISBN:059600513X
Author:Robert Bruce Thompson / Barbara Fritchman Thompson
Publisher:O'Reilly & Associates
Page:850 pages
Edition:3rd edition (July 24, 2003)
Catalog:Computer Bks - General Information
Format:CHM
Size:8.93 MB
Supplier:Team LiB
Summary:PC Hardware in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference relies on an eternal truth of the computer industry: legacy systems never die. This book focuses on the technologies that have provided Wintel personal computers with various capabilities over the years. Like most of its competitors, this book addresses the PC on a subsystem level, and deals with video cards, hard-disk interfaces, memory, and other pieces of the componentry puzzle that hardware integrators need to figure out. The authors do a great job of explaining the differences between (and relative merits of) IDE and SCSI hard-drive interfaces, various video buses, competing processors, and other technologies. They also prove themselves adept at explaining general assembly procedures and troubleshooting strategies.
