CODE / Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Microsoftpress, 2000 - 396

(A) gem that appeal to anyone who wants to understand computer technology as its essence. Preface, Best Friends, Codes and Combinations, Braile and Binary Codes, Anatomy of a Flashlight, Seeing Around Corners, Our Ten Digits, Alternatives to Ten, Bit by Bit by Bit, Logic and Switches, Gates (Not Bill), A Binary Adding Machine, But What About Subtraction, Feedback and Flip-Flops, Bytes and Hex, An Assemblage of Memory, Automation, From Abaci to Chips, Two Classic Microprocessors, ASCII and a Cast of Characters, Get on the Bus, The Operating System, Fixed Point and Floating Point, Languages High and Low, The Graphical Revolution, Acknowledgements, Index.

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