About Book: 

    With its completely new approach, this edition of the venerable Peter Norton’s Inside the PC will bring today’s readers up-to-date on the flood of highly complex technological developments and prepare them for tomorrow’s new revolutions in personal computers. Norton and Goodman explain in detail and with great clarity the inner working and underlying technologies of PCs; and they show how the emergence of the internet has altered forever what we expect from our PCs

 Fully rewritten with all new highly informative illustrations, this edition takes readers far beyond a mere recounting of a PCs internal parts. Chapters on understanding bits, nibbles, and bytes, make clear the basics. Other chapters detail key enabling technologies and got new developments, including IDE,ATAPI,SCSI, Firewire, and USB for peripheral connectivity, as well as MMX (and other) enhancements to our PCs central processors