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Comment by pizza234

You'll find a very good introduction in the comparch book "Write Great Code, Volume 1", chapter 12 ("Input and Output"), which also explains the history of system buses (therefore, you'll find an explanation of how ISA works).

Interestingly, there is a footnote explaining that "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach provided a good chapter on I/O devices and buses; sadly, as it covered very old peripheral devices, the authors dropped the chapter rather than updating it in subsequent revisions."

parent pizza234 4 years ago

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