Principles of Computer Hardware 4th Edition

Everything and more...it is what the teacher is using to teach us.

Great book, lots of detail on ARM programming

Structured and easy understandable book. Programs provided on enclosed to the book CD couldn't be run on windows 7 unfortunately.

A+++

It is simply unacceptable for a book to be on its fourth edition and have so many errors.The font for the book is too small and the layout of illustrations seems disconnected from the content. The author clearly knows the topic and seems to have taught it for a very long time. The content is very current, covering contemporary Intel designs.I believe that this text is a favorite among professors because it comes with Powerpoint templates. Always a winner for the professors, not necessarily for the students considering that they too suffer from a lack of copy and image proofing.

Sometimes, I didn't know if I was simply daft or what was going on. But this book has enough obvious errors in it such that I'm marking down stuff I don't understand as a product of typos. When there aren't any, the book is clear enough, but this is kinda ridiculous.Update: After finding so many more errors, I had to come back and knock this down from two to one star. I genuinely cannot believe that I bought a book with so many errors. There are some things in here that will mess up your learning if you're not paying close attention to them.

I am a Computer Science student at Tallinn University of Technology, and I bought this book for Computer hardware class. It is the main book that our Computer Hardware teacher uses in class.I used this book ( Principles of Computer Hardware, 4th edition) along with Tanenbaum's "Structured computer organization" and I have to say it is a perfect combination.I was amazed how easy to understand the information in this book was. It is not the simplicity of "for dummies" books, but somehow the author managed to explain complicated subjects in an easy to understand way. It is well structured and organized, the material is covered thoroughly (there were quite a few explanations that helped me understand what Tanenbaum meant in his book :-)), there are a lot of very easy to understand illustrations with comments that truly help in understanding the material. The complicated topics are clearly presented, so I REALLY enjoyed reading it. I have to say that I learned a lot from this book, and many topics became really clear to me after reading it.Well, of course, as in almost every book, there were a few misprints in the book, but I think these are not critical to understanding the material.I am so glad I bought this book. So if you are a Computer Science student or just want a book that would help you with your self-education in Computer Hardware, don't hesitate and buy this book.I'm giving it 5 stars !

This is an excellent book for general reading or for reference since it covers quite a bit of stuff.I found this book very useful if you are looking for understanding the Comp H/W from all perspectives.I would recommend this book to every Com Science student.