When the PC was first introduced, it was a simple device that allowed easy development of customized hardware and hardware interfaces. As the PC has developed over the years, the ease of customization and interfacing has lessened to the point where most people feel that it is too difficult to develop custom hardware and applications for "Windows" based PCs. This text introduces the reader to hardware and software aspects of the PC and then goes on to show them how to create customized applications and interfaces. It provides coverage of all PC interface methods including Parallel Port, Serial Port (RS-232), I/O busses (ISA, PCI, IDE and SCSI) and the new USB. It includes experiments and practical projects along with theoretical discussions of how different interfaces operate, and there is source code for all experiments in 8086 assembler, Visual Basic, Visual C++ and LabView. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the source code for all the applications and experiments along with standard tools for developing custom applications.
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The author obviously knows his stuff. The book is chock full of useful information, and not a lot of fluff. It's hard to compress the important facts of PC interfacing into just over 900 pages -- including a hefty appendix. The author manages to do a good job, without dumbing it down for the beginners or making it too lofty for the rest of us. However, the book suffers from poor language throughout, enough that it often gets in the way of the message. I understand that there were some problems with the editing staff at McGraw-Hill before the book went to press, and perhaps that is the reason for the language difficulties. While one can normally overlook typos, grammar, spelling, usage and sentence structure in a strictly technical volume, it's difficult to do so with this book. Sometimes the English is downright hard to read. Had it been better edited, it would merit five stars and not three. Based solely on the strength of the author's knowledge and the information presented in this book, I would purchase other books by the author.
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An Excellent Book,
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The PC Ph.D. is one of the most authoritative and comprehensive books about the PC Architecture available. The book provides a good coverage of not only PC Hardware but it also contains a through survey of the available software development environments across multiple operating systems. I particularly enjoyed the History of the PC Section. The PC's evolution is truly interesting. Predko's liberal use of hardware and software projects provides a solid set of examples for the reader to learn from. I found the book to be valuable resource while developing an ISA Interface card and I'm sure you will too.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Awsome Book!,
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I picked this book up from a local Chapters because I was looking for something to help me out at work (I repair PCs). Wow, this book is thick and has a ton of information on understandin just what is going on inside the PC. Included on the CD-ROM are a couple of utilities that I have used to help me understand what is going wrong with PCs and what is and what isn't being installed. The history of the PC was really useful and it helped me to understand what was going on - especially when I get an old '486.
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Before I go through the PC's architectures and features, I would like to go through a historical perspective on the PC and where it has come from. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
current display page, multiplex interrupt, two stack elements, top stack element, virtual machine manager, mask register bit, return retvalue, prototyping card, card busses, protect mode, diskette controller, interrupt identification register, keyboard flags, requesting hardware, interrupt interface, mainline code, handshaking lines, low addressed, repeat prefixes, iret instruction, multiple interrupt sources, port initialize, reference byte, interrupt bit, hardware interrupt requests Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bit Function, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows, Myke Predko, Bits Function, Pentium Pro, Read Back Error, End Sub Private Sub, Volume Control, Class Wizard, Dest Source, Learning Edition, Segment Limit, Turbo Pascal, Visual Studio, Complement Sign, Destination Parity, Register Vector, Store the Results, Registers Mnemonic, Segment Base, Source Dest, The Operation Explanation, Debugging Visual, New Line New!
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Bit Function, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows, Myke Predko, Bits Function, Pentium Pro, Read Back Error, End Sub Private Sub, Volume Control, Class Wizard, Dest Source, Learning Edition, Segment Limit, Turbo Pascal, Visual Studio, Complement Sign, Destination Parity, Register Vector, Store the Results, Registers Mnemonic, Segment Base, Source Dest, The Operation Explanation, Debugging Visual, New Line New!
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- Game of Life by J. John on page 248
- Advanced Visual Basic Techniques by Rod Stephens in Back Matter
- Serial Port Complete: Programming and Circuits for RS-232 and RS-485 with Disk by Janet Louise Axelson in Back Matter
- Programmable Logic by Corp Intel in Back Matter
- The Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits by Rudolf F. Graf in Back Matter
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