Learning Legendary Hardware

1 · Fabien · Oct. 7, 2013, 1:08 a.m.
If you love software, you also try to understand the hardware to the deep down. It is not an easy task : There are many great programming books but few that explains hardware very well (as Michael Abrash once wrote: the Intel Documentation is "slightly more fun to read than the phone book"). In my quest for knowledge, I found two hardware books to be outstanding: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. Computer Organization and Design. Those ...