Peter Norton's Inside the Pc/Premier

Provides comprehensive coverage of basic principles of PC hardware theory and operation for beginning to advanced users, with boxes containing more detailed technical information. Chapters on processors, traffic control, disks, storage, BIOS, DOS, and printers feature exercises and projects and sample programs in BASIC. Color illustrations and captions explain hardware such as motherboards, system buses, chips, and PC insides. This sixth edition has material on plug-n-play, RISC architecture, multimedia, and software trends. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.