Preface
Preface to the fist edition
Recommended lab sessions
Part 1 Basic functions and facilities of a computer
1 Introduction: the hardware-software interface
2 The von Neumann inheritance
3 Functional units and the fetch-execute cycle
4 Building computers from logic: the control unit
5 Building computers from logic: the ALU
6 Building computers from logic: the memory
7 The Intel Pentium CPU
8 Subroutines
9 Simple input and output
10 Serial connections
11 Parallel connections
12 The memory hierarchy
Part 2 Networking and increased complexity
13 The programmer's viewpoint
14 Local area networks
15 Wide area networks
16 Other networks
17 Introduction to operating systems
18 Windows XP
19 Filing systems
20 Visual output
21 RISC processors: ARM and SPARC
22 VLIW processors: the EPIC Itanium
23 Parallel processing
Appendix: MS Visual Studo 8, Express Edition
Glossary
Answers to end-of-chapter questions
References
Index