ISA System Architecture

By Don Anderson and Tom Shanley

Book Overview

The authoritative guide to the ISA specification for internal PC data exchange. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201409968
• ISBN13: 9780201409963
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Very Good Book

ISA architecture was introduced to the computer market long ago but is still alive for the PC/104 bus micro-controller world. I have been searching for documents realated to the ISA architecture but found only this book the best book that helped me in designing products interfacing to the ISA bus.

A Good Start for Those Who Want to Learn Computer Hardware

This book lays all the groundwork necessary for people who want to learn computer hardware. Especially, it teachs you the basic knowledge you need for all subsequent Mindshare books in PC Architecture Series. The book partitions its content into several parts: 1. CPU: how the CPU fetchs the instructions from memory, and how the CPU process and stores the data inside its registers. 2. INTERFACE: how the CPU communicates...

Great coverage of ISA bus concepts

Just completed the book. Excellent coverage of the ISA Bus -- from the hardware as well as software point of view. Book also covers the peripheral support chips (8237,8259, etc) that are attached to the Bus -- as well as the operating modes of various x86 processors.Definetly geared towards Operating System Developers.

Great Little Book

I like this book since it covers the ISA bus in a very compresive way. It is a good book on computer architecture since it descibes how the CPU attaches to the bus, and what gets attached to the bus. the authors descibe the evolution of the bus by discussing how the CPU (286,386,..) attached to the bus evolves. i like how the book is organized... you dont have to go searching all over the place for information. everything...

Technically speaking, a great resource!

The examples and explanations of why and how the ISA architecture functions in a standard PC were a great help for me. As the book progresses, one can appreciate the complexity of the ISA architecture, yet I didn't get "lost" from chapter to chapter. Without this resource, I probably wouldn't have been able to complete a major design project and graduate from college.