Useful picture "How To" book on computer repair

[Flasherly]

Can you tell me the name of the book?

A red 7-10" or so hardcover, believe titled, MicroArchitecture for
Computers, and printed, if I'm not mistaken, (not later stamped),
somewhere in the first pages [for the] Univ. of Auburn. Hmm...
400-500pps. perhaps. Dealt with a nature of designing early Intel MPU
versions in terms of a) flow-chart style and b) logical diagrams,
encompassing a logistical approach as provisional to areas and regions
encompassing of chip functions respective to an intent or provision of
the instruction set(s).

I'd really have to sit down for another read, if I still have it
(somewhere?), to brush up a bit for a better description of the course
presentment, which I'm probably grasping at here.

 

[jamesjaddah1755]

Can you tell me the name of the book?

A red 7-10" or so hardcover, believe titled, MicroArchitecture for

Computers, and printed, if I'm not mistaken, (not later stamped),

somewhere in the first pages [for the] Univ. of Auburn. Hmm...

400-500pps. perhaps. Dealt with a nature of designing early Intel MPU

versions in terms of a) flow-chart style and b) logical diagrams,

encompassing a logistical approach as provisional to areas and regions

encompassing of chip functions respective to an intent or provision of

the instruction set(s).



I'd really have to sit down for another read, if I still have it

(somewhere?), to brush up a bit for a better description of the course

presentment, which I'm probably grasping at here.

Thanks.

I'm wondering how difficult it would be to start from scratch, as far as having a CPU manufactured to one's own specs if one can figure out how to communicate with whatever attached hardware is needed.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[Paul]

Thanks.

I'm wondering how difficult it would be to start from scratch, as far
as having a CPU manufactured to one's own specs if one can figure out
how to communicate with whatever attached hardware is needed.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

Designing a CPU is relatively hard.

Since the CPU has many communications buses inside it, designing
one more bus to connect to attached hardware would not be a big deal.

Paul

 

[Flasherly]

Thanks.

I'm wondering

how difficult it would be to start from scratch, as far as having a
CPU manufactured to one's own specs if one can figure out how to
communicate with whatever attached hardware is needed.

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Prohibitively. When AMD's Dresden, Germany, plant was designed they
poured acres of concrete into the foundation for added stability and
isolation for critical equipment and measurements affected by spurious
vibration from the earth. That's Top Secret, by the way, or was at
one point. Then, again, it's not the logic behind a primitive
vacuum-tubed adding machine, a pigeon could probably be trained to
out-peck. The introduction of CMOS began the ever-continuing
transition to cooler and smaller ways to "pick a peck of pickled
peppers." In relatively contemporary terms, nothing much was actually
needed by way of attachment to fit that qualification among the
earliest motives for computing - Code Breakers of WW2 and their
machines of revolving cogs and wheels for operators deciphering
pre-aerial influences of naval and submarine locations for plots and
coordinates.

....As Snowden adequately has revealed, not really much has changed,
either, since then. Same ol' shit to shovel for just another day on
the farm.