Early 80's electronic/computer design books

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote: To add: Kernighan and Pike's "Practice of Programming" is just generally good for programming, and since it uses C it's particularly applicable to OS design My OS class used Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne "Operating System Concepts", but I've also read a bit of Deitel's "Operating Systems" and Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems". "Design of Digital Computers" by Gschwind is very detailed down to the lowest levels, but since it was published in 1967 there is a lot of information that is of interest historically but not for any modern work--ex: core memory. John Floren -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba