alt Hacker NewsIt wasn't until I read Petzold's CODE that this stuff, especially the role of the the motherboard bridging processing, memory and I/O and what an OS is for, that it started to click for me.
It wasn't until I read Petzold's CODE that this stuff, especially the role of the the motherboard bridging processing, memory and I/O and what an OS is for, that it started to click for me.
Yeah my stepdad bought me CODE as a kid and that really helped. A similar book that took a "top down" approach as much as possible would have also helped though, but would be much harder to pull off