Fred Zeise's Recommended Reading For
Programmers
Here's a list of recommended books about the art and practice
of programming, chosen by Maxtor's advanced development software
architect, Fred Zeise, for their outstanding features and editorial
excellence. These are books he recomends to his co-workers and
others working in the computer and drive businesses here in Silicon
Valley.
Other technical folks in Milpitas who wish to recommend books
for this section may do so. Your name will be used with the description
unless you refuse. Use contact link at the bottom of this page.
Emerging Technologies
Explorations
in Quantum Computing
by Colin P. Williams and Scott H Clearwater
A somewhat non-mathematical introduction to quantum computing
and its applications. Hardcover 1997.
Hardware
Computer
Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, David Goldberg
Everybody in the SUN OS group loved it! Now it is updated with
current architectures and an enhanced section of IO architectures,
including RAID, cache coherent multiprocessing, and clusters.
High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black
Magic
by Howard W., Ph.D. Johnson, Martin, Ph.D. Graham
Focused on the field of knowledge lying between digital and analog
circuit theory, this new text will help engineers workng with
digital systems shorten their latest design problems.
Holy
Grail of Data Storage Management, The
by Jon William Toigo, Margaret Romao Toigo (Illustrator)
Toigo's grasp of the storage industry's current players and technology
is strong and thoughtful. He walks up from techniques in managing
disks to strategic initiatives by major vendors.
Magnetic
Information Storage Technology (Electromagnetism)
by Shan X. Wang, A. M. Taratorin
Wang and Taratorin present the best technical overview of magnetic
recording I have seen to date. What I found especially valuable
is the extensive discussion of both the characteristics and measurement
of the principal non-linearities impacting magnetic recording.
1999 Hardcover.
The
Programmer's Guide to Scsi
by Brian Sawert
Geared specifically for programmers who are writing drivers or
creating applications that support SCSI devices, this book presents
comprehensive SCSI hardware and software information within the
context of software development. 1998 Paperback.
PCI System Architecture, Fourth Edition (PC
System Architecture Series)
by Tom Shanley, Don Anderson
The best introduction to the guts of the PC architecture. Describes
revision 2.1 of the PCI bus specification. 1999 Hardcover.
The
Scsi Bus and Ide Interface : Protocols, Applications and Programming
by Friedhelm Schmidt
This fully expanded and updated second edition continues to provide
an accessible description of both SCSI and IDE interfaces, including
an explanation of essential terminology together with a breakdown
of the commands and protocols. 1997 Paperback.
Theory
of Magnetic Recording
by H. Neal Bertram
This textbook provides a thorough background in the structure
and fields of heads and media, the replay process, the recording
process and medium noise analysis. 1994 Paperback.
Linux
Linux Kernel Internals
by Michael Beck(Editor)
The first good overview of Linux internals. Explains the inner
mechanisms of Linux from process scheduling to memory management
and file systems. CD-ROM included. 1998 Paperback.
Embedded Systems
Embedded
Systems Building Blocks: Complete and Ready-To-Use Modules in
C
by Jean J. Labrosse
Get a clear explanation of microcontroller theory and functional
code modules that can be used to create basic embedded system
functions.
Other Software
The C++ Standard Library : A Tutorial and
Reference
by Nicolai M. Josuttis
Introduces the C++ standard library and all its components from
a conceptual point of view, then describes the details for programming
with the standard template library (STL), special containers,
strings, numeric classes, and the IOStream library. "It's
incredible!"
Learning
Perl (3rd Edition)
by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Christiansen, Larry Wall
This third edition of Learning Perl, designed for those who seek
a rapid working knowledge of Perl and sporting a new foreword
by Perl author Larry Wall. Majorly rewritten.
Windows
Mfc
Internals : Inside the Microsoft Foundation Class Architecture
by Gerge Shephed, Scott Wingo, Dean D. McCrory
Reference book reveals the code-level specifics of how the classes
interact with the Windows operating system. Paperback w/ disk
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