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2016 -- Chapter 1 (Introduction), Chapter 2 (System Requirements),
Chapter 3 (Address Map), Chapter 4 (I/O Bridges and Topology),
Chapter 5 (Processors and Memory), Chapter 6 (Interrupt Controller),
Chapter 8 (Non-volatile memory), Chapter 9 (I/O Devices),
Chapter 11 (The Symmetric Multiprocessor Option), Chapter 12 (Product Topology),
and Appendix H (Non-Uniform Memory Access [NUMA] Option).