Complete Pentium 4 offers unparalleled coverage of Intel's processor family ia32, of 386 through the Pentium 4 and Pentium M processors. As a result, the reader will come away with a complete understanding of the internal architecture of the processor, Front Side Bus (FSB), relationship to the system processor, and software architecture of the processor. Essential topics covered include: Single goal-task and multi-task operating system 386 processor? Ancestral basis of ia32 Processor family The 486 processor, including the primary cache Pentium Processor The P6 roadmap, P6 processor core, and P6 FSB Pentium Pro processor, including microcode update feature Pentium II and Pentium II Xeon processor Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon processors Pentium 4 processor family Pentium M processor Processor identification, System Management Mode, and the IO and Local APICS A "quick-" table of contents allows readers to quickly find topics ranging from 386 Demand Mode Paging to Pentium 4 CPU Arbitration.