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1. Digital Building Blocks:
   • Brian Brown's online documentation on number systems (printer friendly local copies: Postscript and PDF)
   • Disasters caused by computer arithmetic errors.
   • ASCII Table
   • ASCII <-> EBCDIC conversions
   • Understanding FP Representation IEEE 754 Standard for floating point numbers
     (printer friendly local copies: Postscript and PDF)
   • An example of how to convert into IEEE 754. Another example.

2. C Programming:
   • The C standard library: what's in those header files!
   • The Development of the C Language
   • Brian Brown's Introduction to C Programming
     • Interactive Tests
   • C Programming by Steven Holmes, University of Strathclyde
   • Tutorials by Mark Burgess, Uni Of Leicester
   • The GNU C Library (all you ever want to know - and more!)
   • Programming in C: Unix System Calls and Subroutines using C, by A.D. Marshall at Cardiff University
   • Programming Languages

3. PeANUts: see also the PeANUt@Home page.
   • PeANUt Source Code tar file, v2.14b (06/08) written in C and Tcl/Tk/Tix, distributed under the GNU General Public License, is available from here. May be harder to install Tcl/Tk/Tix to install on Windows.
     Older versions: v2.14 (01/08), v2.13a (03)
   • Pre-compiled 32-bit x86 version for Linux (zip file). Not guaranteed to work on anywhere but partch though.
   • Pre-compiled 32-bit x86 version for Windows (zip file). Many thanks to Jack Kelly for doing the Windows build. Tested on a very limited number of XP and Vista boxes; not guaranteed to work anywhere else!
   Note: no support is provided with any of these codes! However, use the course Discussion Board if you have problems.

4. Memory Systems and Modern Machines:
   • CPU Info Center
   • two representative CISC designs
   • SPARC: Architecture Manual, Ultra IIICu, T2 CoolThreads

5. Operating System Concepts:
   • virtuaization: VMware, Xen, KVM

6. Interconnection Networks:
   • Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, IPv4 address space crisis, IPv6 ( preliminary paper)
   • ACT: Regional Network Organisation, ANU Network
   • content delivery networks, virtual private networks

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