Product Description: "If he sends me into fire or into the ocean, I will go. I'll go for him."  Temujin rose from exile and slavery to conquer the world. This is his story.In the same spirit as Shogun, James Clavell's epic historical novel of feudal Japan, Heaven's Favorite tells the tale of Temujin, the Mongol outcast who swept all before him to become Chinggis Khan, the founder of an empire six times larger than Rome's...read more

Product Description: Heaven's Favorite paints a vivid portrait of the Asia of eight hundred years ago in which Temujin's story unfolds. Over the past eight hundred years, our collective memory of Chinggis Khan has been reduced to a grotesque caricature of an archetypical despot...read more

Product Description: Describes all hardware and software operational aspects of Infini Band networking. This book details important concepts relating to the design and implementation of data networks using this emerging standard. It provides an overview of the Infini Band specification, and detailed descriptions of the architecture's operational characteristics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Fourth Edition now available!"One of the major benefits of the PCI specification is that it is defined with many engineering disciplines in mind: architecture, protocol, components, board layout, and software. Mindshare's PCI System Architecture is an excellent resource for understanding all these aspects and their interrelationships." -Todd Koelling, Applications Engineer, Intel Corporation; member of the PCI development teamPCI System Architecture describes revision 2.1 of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus specification, providing a clear, concise explanation of PCI's relationship to the rest of the system. This book has been updated and revised to include in-depth treatment of PCI to PCI bridges, the PCI BIOS, the 66MHz PCI bus, and more. PCI experts Tom Shanley and Don Anderson provide a comprehensive treatment of the bus including: * reflected-wave switching * shared resource acquisition * signal groups 64-bit extension * bus arbitration * add-in cards and connectors * command set * configuration * read and write transfers * expansion ROMs * premature transaction termination * cacheable memory support This book also examines the VLSI Technology VL82C59x chipset to illustrate an example PCI bus implementation. If you design or test hardware or software that involves the PCI bus, PCI System Architecture is an essential, time-saving tool. The PC System Architecture Series is a crisply written and comprehensive set of guides to the most important PC hardware standards. Each title explains from a programmer's perspective the architecture, features, and operations of systems built using one particular type of chip or hardware specification. 0201409933B04062001 (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This is a comprehensive reference to Intel's microprocessor, the P6. The book looks from a programmer's point of view at the architecture, features and operation of systems built using this successor to the Pentium chip.

Product Description: the problems that single-task and multitasking operating systems must deal with, and then examines each component of both the real and protected mode software architectures. This book is organized into three parts. Part One: Background introduces the reader to the problems faced by a multitasking operating system...read more

Product Description: CardBus System Architecture describes 32-bit PC Cards, called CardBus PC Cards, and the hardware and software interfaces required to implement the new CardBus solution. This book focuses on the design and implementation of CardBus Cards and the host systems required to support them, including relationships and interaction between hardware and software elements associated with CardBus Cards and their host systems...read more

Product Description: Designed as a companion volume to the official hardware design guide for Windows 95, Plug and Play System Architecture provides a detailed hardware and software description of the Plug and Play technology that is integrated into Windows 95 and will soon appear in other operating systems, including Windows NT...read more

Product Description: 80486 System Architecture describes the hardware architecture of PC products using the Intel family of 80486 chips, providing a clear, concise explanation of the 80486 processor's relationship to the rest of the system. The author provides a comprehensive treatment of the processor including: -80486 microarchitecture and its functional units -internal and external caches -hardware interface -SL technology features -instructions new to the 80486 -the register set -486/487SX processors -486DX2 processors -486DX2 write-back enhanced processor -486DX4 processors -implementation-specific issues -main memory subsystem design -OverDrive processors If you design or test hardware or software that involves 486 processors, 80486 System Architecture is an essential, time-saving tool...read more

Product Description: For software and hardware developers this guide discusses the design and features of PC products which use Intel's Pentium microprocessor. Detailing the technical strategy behind the Pentium processor, this book adopts an accessible and well-illustrated approach to explain the topic...read more

Product Description: An invaluable tool and reference on ISA architecture and time reading it is time well spent. You might just end up wondering how you ever got along without it! -David Greenberg, Dell Computer Corporation ISA System Architecture describes the hardware architecture of ISA (Industry Standard Architecture), providing a clear, concise explanation of an ISA system in detail...read more

Product Description: A time-saving tool for those who design or test hardware or software that involves EISA (extension to the industry standard architecture). Describes EISA's hardware architecture, explains how EISA differs from ISA, and gives an overview of the bus structure, including bus masters and slaves, bus arbitration, and interrupt handling...read more

Product Description: IBM Ps/2 from the Inside Out