Gustavo Duarte

• Motherboard Chipsets and the Memory Map
• full diagram showing both north and south bridges
• Getting Physical With Memory
• How Computers Boot Up
• The Kernel Boot Process
• CPU Rings, Privilege, and Protection
• System Calls Make the World Go Round
• What Your Computer Does While You Wait
• When Does Your OS Run?
• What Does an Idle CPU Do?

• Memory Translation and Segmentation
• Anatomy of a Program in Memory
• How the Kernel Manages Your Memory
• Page Cache, the Affair Between Memory and Files
• Cache: A Place for Concealment and Safekeeping
• Journey to the Stack, Part I
• Epilogues, Canaries, and Buffer Overflows

• Recursion: Dream Within a Dream
• Tail Calls, Optimization, and ES6
• Closures, Objects, and the Fauna of the Heap