Reviews for The principles of computer organization

The average rating for The principles of computer organization based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-06-05 00:00:00 Henry Reynolds I bought this book hoping to understand more about that old XT.. I found it rather dry reading and it was probably beyond me.. and still is! Looking at it now reminds me of what it was like then... who else remembers "dumping" the memory to figure our "NOW what's the problem!!!". Yet Isurvived and the computer worked most of the time. Gee, that's funny, the darn computers still have problems, but now a memory dump isn't going to help!

Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-20 00:00:00 Bama Boy I got this book many years ago when an Atari 8-bit was my only computer. I read through it last year, since I've been revisiting the Atari as a challenge I've set for myself. I'm using it as an entree into the practice of reworking a system in a deep way. One avenue I thought I might use for that was 6502 assembler. This book was a nice introduction to assembler on the Atari, though it's by no means complete. I ended up finding a more complete Atari Assembler reference online from an old Atari users group newsletter. This book gets you familiar with the basics, understanding memory, what some of the terms for that mean (like MEMLO, and MEMHI, low byte and high byte, etc.). It goes through examples of how to use a basic list of operators that a 6502 programmer will need to know how to use. It has some nice touches, like teaching how to do 16-bit arithmetic operations, and how to use the Atari's sound hardware. If you want to do anything more than "hello world"-type programming, though, you will need more than this book.