>>13685032Here's a recommendation: If you want to go from the basics, and I mean basics, straight through to CPU design, here's a helpful book:
Code - The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold
Here's the contents so you can evaluate:
Chapter One Best Friends 3
Chapter Two Codes and Combinations 9
Chapter Three Braille and Binary Codes 15
Chapter Four Anatomy of a Flashlight 22
Chapter Five Seeing Around Corners 32
Chapter Six Telegraphs and Relays 40
Chapter Seven Our Ten Digits 47
Chapter Eight Alternatives to Ten 54
Chapter Nine Bit by Bit by Bit 69
Chapter Ten Logic and Switches 86
Chapter Eleven Gates (Not Bill) 102
Chapter Twelve A Binary Adding Machine 131
Chapter Thirteen But What About Subtraction? 143
Chapter Fourteen Feedback and Flip-Flops 155
Chapter Fifteen Bytes and Hex 180
Chapter Sixteen An Assemblage of Memory 190
Chapter Seventeen Automation 206
Chapter Eighteen From Abaci to Chips 238
Chapter Nineteen Two Classic Microprocessors 260
Chapter Twenty ASCII and a Cast of Characters 286
Chapter Twenty-One Get on the Bus 301
Chapter Twenty-Two The Operating System 320
Chapter Twenty-Three Fixed Point, Floating Point 335
Chapter Twenty-Four Languages High and Low 349
Chapter Twenty-Five The Graphical Revolution 364
Last comment: I FUCKIN LOVE BOOLEAN LOGIC!
