Take a trip through the neural pathways and vital organs of your personal computer with the newest edition of this long-standing bestseller. Glorious full color illustrations make even the most complex subjects easy to understand.
Follow PC/Computing senior editor and computer expert Ron White as he shows you the cutting edge technologies, including the Internet, multimedia sound and video, Pentium processors, local bus architecture, Plug and Play, CD-ROM, digital cameras, color printing, and more in new chapters on the hottest, and coolest, PC components.
Chapter 1 Getting to know the hardware
Chapter 2 How a disk boot wakes up your PC
Chapter 3 How an operating system controls hardware
Chapter 4 How transistors manipulate data
Chapter 5 How a microprocessor works
Chapter 6 How programming languages work
Chapter 7 How Windows works
Chapter 8 How software applications do your work
Chapter 9 How a computer's long-term memory works
Chapter 10 How disk drives save information
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