What Every Engineer Should Know about Microcomputers [Hardcover]

Bennett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 29, 1990 | ISBN-10: 0824781937 | ISBN-13: 978-0824781934 | Edition: 2

Revised and expanded guide demonstrates microcomputer usage by working through one simple design challenge and explaining its solution. This edition features the contributions of an Ada expert, demonstrates (in 14 new chapters) the development of a microcomputer system structured by this language, a

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 2 edition (November 29, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824781937
• ISBN-13: 978-0824781934
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,390,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Reads like good fiction., October 23, 2003

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Joe (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What Every Engineer Should Know about Microcomputers (Hardcover)

I checked this book out of the library today and am already halfway through the book. The material is presented in such a lucid manner that reading sections over again is not necessary. It is also thoroughly engaging in its step-by-step approach to solving a problem via hardware and software.

This is a nice companion to a weightier book like Patterson & Hennessy's; especially since it is based on Motorola's 6800 series chip. I will no doubt be adding a copy to my personal library soon.

5.0 out of 5 stars THE book to begin your computer voyage, January 16, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: What Every Engineer Should Know about Microcomputers: (Hardcover)

WHAT EVERY ENGINEER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MICRO-COMPUTERS is the
book that solved a very serious dilemma for me, namely,
where to begin a technical education of computers.

In very simple but technical language this book teaches
the basics of how the computer uses its innards to
accomplish the tasks assigned to it by the user, be he
a mathematical person, a verbal person, a gaming person,
a commercial person, .... Well, you get the picture.

Reading W E E S K About Micro-Computers has peaked my
interest so much in the series of books WHAT EVERY ENGINEER
SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ..., that I immediately upon finishing it
looked up the publisher to find to my delight that there
are many more in the series, in which I intend to invest
as my interests lead me.

I HIGHLY recommend this book, only the third in the list,
as a starting point for anyone with only the slightest
rationality in him and wanting to know more to get himself
started on his own personal voyage into the information
world that is upon us to stay.

Kudos toe the autors, editors, publishers, and anyone
involved in the series, but especially to the authors
William S. Bennett and Carl F. Evert, Jr. for their most
excellent book for the beginning student, parent, child,
teacher, and whoever may need to know just a little more
than where the on-off button is.

Ronald Darden