computer architecture

[Acheron]

Any good e-books on architecture you know of,something that expalins it all in detail, less complicated and maybe with some pics ?

[G_Morgan]

What exactly do you want to know about it. I'd probably go for an assembly language tutorial.

Art of Assembly Language Programming and HLA by Randall Hyde

That goes into some detail about how the basic parts fit together. You need to understand the architecture to program in assembly so they teach it.

//edit - free book btw.//

[Acheron]

This sounds good,when i was doing my assembly class we were mostly focusing on stuff like memory addressing,pipe lining and stuff like that.
I am more interested in the basic hardware parts,how they work with each other and generally more practical stuff.

This link seams too have a lotta stuff,i will give it a try,thenx.

[G_Morgan]

There are a couple of decent OSDev tutorials out there

OS Development

Bona Fide OS Development News

These will have a lot of information on the various low level hardware (I mean low level though, bootstrapping, VGA, basic paging).

Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manuals

The last set of manuals describes a lot of the very basic data structures and instructions that can be used by the x86 processor.

Some of this stuff can be overwhelming though. The last link is most certainly a reference source and not a tutorial.

[Acheron]

This first link appears to be most helpful,i will dig right into it,thenx

[TcM]

I liked the Os development link!! Gonna spend some time in there.
Thanks

+REP given!!

Acheron, if you did find those links useful I think that you should give some rep too.

[Acheron]

Niah ! I always hated all that cheesy forum reputations and that stuff but if it means so much to people...rep given !
good job mate !

[TcM]

well there is nothing wrong with giving +rep, takes only a second to give +rep and showing that you liked his/her help.