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This is the source for an ebook version of Michael Abrash's Black Book of Graphics Programming (Special Edition), originally published in 1997 and released online for free in 2001. Reproduced with blessing of Michael Abrash, converted and maintained by James Gregory. The version which Michael and Dr. Dobbs released in 2001 was a collection of PDF files. That version is still available. However, the structure (multiple files) and the format (PDF) result in a poor user experience on an ebook...

...The curriculum progresses from basic hardware concepts and Verilog simulation into a working processor. Students are expected to build components such as a UART, ARM7-style CPU, assembler, boot ROM, and linker. Later sections add a C compiler, libc pieces, memory management, Ethernet, and a bootloader. The operating-system portion introduces an MMU, Unix-like system calls, a filesystem, and basic user-space programs. The final software stages add TCP networking, dynamic linking, Telnet access, and a text-based web browser.

An electronic edition viewer for CD-ROM/DVD-Editions, probably also web-editions in future. Uses TEI or similar XML-markup as text encoding language, a proprietary XML-standoff-markup to link text and digital images. Uses TEIdex as search engine.