Book Errata
Mike Meyers A+ Guide to PC Hardware, by Michael Meyers and Scott Jernigan
Errata
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pp. 60-61. The paragraph under the heading "Pentium—the Basis of Today's CPUs" needs a style edit and a portion of a sentence added. The paragraph should read as follows, with the substantive change in bold:
The Pentium is not a new chip—it's been around since 1990 and the last versions of the Pentium chip were discontinued in 1995. Newer CPUs—with names like Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4—all use the many components that you've just seen on the original Pentium CPU. With the exception of the 64-bit data bus and 32-bit address bus—features shared by every subsequent 32-bit processor—almost all of these components have evolved considerably. We'll look at all the popular CPUs developed since the Pentium and see how they've built on this legacy CPU.
p. 101, Figure 3-16. Both the picture and the caption should change. The caption should read as follows (change in bold):
Here's a close-up of a 30-pin SIMM. The three chips show it has parity.
The picture should be a 30-pin SIMM, not an erroneously-labeled 30-pin SIPP (click for a larger version):
Figure 3-16