Subj : Intel hardware books
To   : Vitus Jensen
From : David Noon
Date : Sat May 26 2001 02:09 am

Hi Vitus,

Replying to a message of Vitus Jensen to Lee Aroner:

 VJ> I would like to have an Intel or AMD manual about the i386 because
 VJ> this stuff IMHO is best explained by the processor vendor but I have
 VJ> only a bad german short reference.  One of these days I should "lend"
 VJ> one from the library...

You could try "The Indispensable Pentium Book" by Hans-Peter Messmer. 
[Available in German too, of course.] He wrote about 4 pages on call gates and 
ring gates in the 1995 edition I have, ISBN  0-201-87727-9.

I have the Intel books on i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro and MMX (Messmer doesn't 
cover MMX, as his book is a little older). These are quite a handy reference, 
but Messmer's book makes better reading if one needs to devour an entire 
chapter. Perhaps Messmer has updated his book to cover P-II and P-III hardware, 
which would be very nice, as he would cover MMX and SSE[2].

Regards

Dave
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