Ask HN: What is the best book for understanding how computers work today?

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I am often baffled by talk about NVME, DDR5, GPUs, etc. I have experience as a programmer but I want to understand the current (2023) technology in a computer.

What is the best book for that?

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Not a book, but a very good free course on computer science https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9u...

Get the latest A+ certification book.

this.

no need to get certified, just take courses related to it.

comptia a+ for hardware. comptia network+ for networking.

there is also cloud+, security+.

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