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: With the steppe now unified under his rule, the story continues in book two as Chinggis Khan turns his attention to the world outside. Over the past eight hundred years, history has depicted Chinggis Khan as a bloodthirsty despot who, like his contemporaries, was capable of great cruelty...read more

Product Description: “In this monumental new book, Tom Shanley pulls together 15 years of history of Intel’s mainline microprocessors, the most popular and important computer architecture in history. Shanley has a keen eye for the salient facts, and an outstanding sense for how to organize and display the material for easy accessibility by the reader...read more

Product Description: "We have always recommended these books to our customers and even our own engineers for developing a better understanding of technologies and specifications. We find the latest PCI Express book from MindShare to have the same content and high quality as all the others...read more

Product Description: Infiniband is a new networking technology for connecting servers, storage subsystems and networking devices. Great innovations have taken place in I/O networking technology: e.g., Gigabit Ehternet, Fibre Channel, and Ultra SCSI. Today's Internet data centers are very complex and servers are often connected to three or four different networks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The PCI-X bus will start appearing in advanced PCs within months, delivering breakthrough performance, transfer rates of up to 1.06 Gb/sec, and backward compatibility with the PCI standard. Now, there's a comprehensive guide to PCI-X, covering everything engineers and developers need to create robust, reliable PCI-X boards and software...read more

Product Description: The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) interface is a platform bus specification that enables high-performance graphics capabilities, 3-D, and video--over networks as well as on individual PCs. Platform-independent, AGP is supported by numerous hardware and software vendors, and is now a standard on Intel-based platforms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: PCI System Architecture is a detailed and comprehensive guide to the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Bus Specification, Intel's technology for fast communication between peripheral devices and the computer processor. This new edition has been thoroughly updated, reorganized, and expanded to cover the PCI Local Bus Specification version 2...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Protected Mode Software Architecture helps readers understandthe problems that single-task and multitasking operating systems must dealwith, and then examines each component of both the real and protected modesoftware architectures...read more

Product Description: "The 'must-have' PC architecture reference set." -PC Magazine's "Read Only" column 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...read more

Product Description: PowerPC step-by-step from a system point of view.

Product Description: * Designed as a companion volume to the official hardware design guide for Windows(r) 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: Pentium Processor System Architecture describes the hardware architecture of computers using Intel's family of Pentium processors, providing a clear, concise explanation of the microprocessor's relationship to the rest of the system...read more

Product Description: *ISA System Architecture describes the hardware architecture of ISA (Industry Standard Architecture), providing a clear, concise explanation of an ISA system in detail. The authors provide a comprehensive treatment of the bus including: **-bus cycles *-addressing *-I/O *-RAM, ROM, and cache memory *-cache architectures *-decode and reset logic *-interrupts *-system kernel *-bus mastering *-DMA *-RTC and configuration RAM If you design or test hardware or software that involves ISA, ISA System Architecture is an essential, time-saving tool...read more

Product Description: The Extension to Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) standard specifies a means of designing hardware that handles the internal communications and data exchange within a personal computer, and is specifically designed for data communications using 32-bit technology...read more