Structured Computer Organization is a bestselling text that provides an accessible introduction to computer hardware and architecture. The book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding computer systems. It’s been thoroughly updated to reflect today’s most critical new technologies and the latest developments in computer organization and architecture. Tanenbaum’s renowned writing style and painstaking research make this one of the most accessible and accurate books available, maintaining the author’s popular method of presenting a computer as a series of layers, each one built upon the ones below it and understandable as a separate entity.