Knowledge: A little light expels much darkness _ Bahya ibn Paquda,
Duties of the Heart During the early 1970s digital computer
techniques concentrated on the computational and interfacing
aspects of digital systems and the decade began as the age of both
the mainframe computer and the minicomputer. Engineers and system
designers needed to know the fundamentals of computer operation and
how the practical limitations of the architectures of the day, the
memory size, cost and performance could be overcome; it was for
this reason that this book was first written. By 1980 the
microprocessor revolution had arrived. As a result the
microprocessor became a component of a system, rather than a system
itself, and the need to understand the behaviour of the device
became of even greater importance to the system designer. New
developments in mainframe computers were few, with networks of
minicomputers taking over their role in many instarices. The 1980
revision of this book took into account the major advances in
semiconductor technology that had occurred since it was first
published in 1972, and included material relevant to the
microprocessor.
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