Processor Performance

John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Second Edition, Chapters 2-5, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1996.

Tom Shanley, Protected Mode Software Architecture, MindShare Inc., 1996.

David A. Solomon and Mark E. Russinovich, Inside Microsoft Windows 2000, Third Edition, Chapters 3 and 6, Microsoft Press, 2000.

Jeffrey Richter, Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows, Fourth Edition, Chapters 4-12, Microsoft Press, 1999.

Roger Penrose, The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics, Penguin, 1991.

http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg. Historical information on Werner Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/frob.shtml. Site where you can download the Frob utility and other related system utilities.

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