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Expert C Programming
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Expert C Programming

by Peter van der Linden
June 1994
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 28m
English
Pearson
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7. Thanks for the Memory

A master was explaining the nature of the Tao to one of his novices.

“The Tao is embodied in all software—regardless of how insignificant,” said the master.

“Is the Tao in a hand-held calculator?” asked the novice. “It is,” came the reply.

“Is the Tao in a video game?” continued the novice. “It is even in a video game,” said the master.

“And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer?”

The master coughed and shifted his position slightly. “That would be in the stack frame Bob, and the lesson is over for today,” he said.

—Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming

the Intel 80x86 family...the Intel 80x86 memory model and how it got thatway...virtual memory...cache memory...the data segment and heap...memory leaks...bus ...

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