<div dir="ltr">The most useful boot refer to legacy system I believe:<div><br><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Undocumented-PC-Programmers-Edition/dp/0201479508">http://www.amazon.com/The-Undocumented-PC-Programmers-Edition/dp/0201479508</a></div><div><br></div><div>Beside Aaron's suggestion of Intel manuals, I also recommend AMD programming manuals, </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://developer.amd.com/resources/documentation-articles/developer-guides-manuals/">http://developer.amd.com/resources/documentation-articles/developer-guides-manuals/</a></div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Gregg Levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregg.drwho8@gmail.com" target="_blank">gregg.drwho8@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello!<br>
I'll echo what you also said Aaron with this one on the X86 family as well:<br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Computer-organization-Hardware-software-Gorsline/dp/0131652907/ref=cm_wl_huc_item" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Computer-organization-Hardware-software-Gorsline/dp/0131652907/ref=cm_wl_huc_item</a><br>
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That book happens to be extremely important to almost any programmer.<br>
It contains several sadly retired part numbers in the book, and of<br>
course the members of the original series of system members. It<br>
largely talks about the actual beginning entries, the 8086 itself, and<br>
others. People here would find it useful because it still describes<br>
useful ideas.<br>
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Even Intel is realizing that the retired the X86 working entries in<br>
the series too early, that's why the QUARK family is out now.<br>
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Gregg C Levine <a href="mailto:gregg.drwho8@gmail.com">gregg.drwho8@gmail.com</a><br>
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Aaron Durbin <<a href="mailto:adurbin@chromium.org">adurbin@chromium.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Peter Stuge <<a href="mailto:peter@stuge.se">peter@stuge.se</a>> wrote:<br>
>> <a href="mailto:prasnik@anche.no">prasnik@anche.no</a> wrote:<br>
>>> do you mean that no book (that you know) talks about x86 systems?<br>
>><br>
>> Some books do, no single book covers the 35+ years of legacy which is<br>
>> still very much present in the latest x86 hardware.<br>
><br>
> I'll definitely echo what Peter said. There are the intel manuals:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html" target="_blank">http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html</a><br>
><br>
> While those are good, there are a lot of quirky things that are chip<br>
> specific that aren't covered. And as Peter said there is a lot of<br>
> legacy.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Indispensable-Hardware-Book-Edition/dp/0201596164/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1412688038&sr=8-2" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/The-Indispensable-Hardware-Book-Edition/dp/0201596164/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1412688038&sr=8-2</a><br>
><br>
> That one is very much oriented to BIOS and PCs proper. There are some<br>
> gems in there, but I wouldn't go to that if one wanted to understand<br>
> computer architecture.<br>
><br>
> -Aaron<br>
><br>
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