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Jones and Bartlett Computer Systems by J. Stanley Warford
Computer Systems, Fifth Edition Provides A Clear, Detailed, Step-By-Step Introduction To The Central Concepts In Computer Organization, Assembly Language, And Computer Architecture. It Urges Students To Explore The Many Dimensions Of Computer Systems Through A Top-Down Approach To Levels Of Abstraction. By Examining How The Different Levels Of Abstraction Relate To One Another, The Text Helps Students Look At Computer Systems And Their Components As A Unified Concept. New & Key Features:- New High-Order Language - The High-Order Language Is Changed From C++ To C. The C Language Is More Common As A Systems Programming Language And Is More Appropriate For A Computer Systems Text.- New Sidebars - Each Sidebar Is A Real-World Example Of The Concepts Described In That Chapter. As Most Of The Chapters Describe The Pep/9 Virtual Machine, The Sidebars For Those Chapters Show Corresponding Implementations For The Intel X86 Architecture.- New And Expanded Topics - New And Expanded Topics Include, Qr Codes, Color Displays, Unicode, Utf-32 And Utf-8 Encoding, Floating Point Underflow, Big-Endian And Little-Endian Order, Memory Alignment Issues, And Expanded Risc Design Principles And Mips Coverage To Contrast With The Pep/9 Cisc Design.- New Virtual Machine - Pep/8, The Virtual Machine For The Two Previous Editions, Is Now Superseded By The New And Improved Pep/9. Pep/9 Retains The Same Eight Addressing Modes Of Pep/8 But Now Includes Memory-Mapped I/O, An Improved Return-From-Subroutine Instruction, A New Native Compare-Byte Instruction, Improved Instruction Mnemonics, And A New Hexadecimal Output Trap Instruction.- New Software - The Pep/9 System In The Text Is Supported By Two Updated Open Source Software Applications, The Assembler/Simulator And The Cpu Simulator.