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D103 wrote:
> Also, I have yet to finish high-school so my knowledge of computers and how they
> work is somewhat limited.
Back in high school I found in the library a wonderful text. It was a huge
hardback book about 3 or 4 cm thick. It started with vacuum tubes, tube
diodes and triodes, then went into semiconductor tech, including what a
semiconductor *is*, how the doping affects its behavior, how a diode works,
an LED, a transistor, a thermistor, etc. Then into chips, how to make
transistors on a chip, how the doping is done, then gates from that.
I wish so much I remembered what that book is called. It taught me 90% of
what I know about hardware.
After that, the SAM'S book on the 8080 pretty much taught me the basics of
computer architecture, instruction sets, etc.
It's a shame in some ways that everything has gotten so complicated that you
wind up with either a quantum physics textbook or a "Teach Yourself
Microsoft Word in 24 hours" sort of book, and nothing really in between that
I know of.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Serving Suggestion:
"Don't serve this any more. It's awful."
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