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Discussed about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356314 (196 comments)

Also the author of the famous "Programming Windows" books.

And the marvelous book Code. He explains how a digital computer works. Not sophisticated ones, not how it works on silicon, but how you turn relays into computation.

True, this book is a classic and worth mentioning.

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold

Some reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44882.Code

When I discovered it, "the Petzold" was called "the Windows bible".

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