This text provides an introduction to computer hardware, software and firmware for those wishing to follow more specialist courses in later years. Assuming almost no previous knowledge of either hardware or software it proceeds from basic concepts of logic design to computer structure, memory systems, and input-output considerations. A description of a small computer system then explains the basic principles of data storage, instruction sets, and addressing modes, as a preamble to systems software and data communications. The underlying purpose of the book is to show not only how computers, especially microcomputers, function in the way that they do but, equally importantly, why they are designed in the way they are.
- ISBN10 1850322260
- ISBN13 9781850322269
- Publish Date 31 December 1995
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 20 March 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cengage Learning EMEA
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English