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From: nakman@cbnewsk.att.com (neil.a.kirby)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Hennessey(sp?)/Patterson book on architecture
Summary: Very good book
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.122555.4367@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 12 Jun 90 12:25:55 GMT
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>COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE:  A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH, by John Hennessy
>(Stanford) and Dave Patterson (UC Berkeley).
>
>
>This book is now available through technical bookstores, and should be
>in-stock at the larger stores in major cities.  It can also be ordered
>directly from the publisher:
>
>Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
>2929 Campus Drive, Ste 260,
>San Mateo, CA 94403,
>Tel 415/965-4081. 
>VISA, Mastercard, personal checks and money orders will be accepted.
>The cost of the title is $54.95 plus $3.50 shipping/handling for
>each copy ordered.

    To any architecture instructors: I just finished evaluating this book
for our graduate level architecture class and it is a GENERATION ahead of
all of the other books we evaluated.  All of the other books considered get
put in a pile marked 'nowhere near as good as this one.'

    To the rest of comp.arch - I suggest getting a copy of this and reading
it for professional reasons.  I was learning new things from reading this
book which was not true of the other books we evaluated.

   I have no connection with MK publishing except as a happy user of their
book.  Sorry if this violates your idea of no commercialism (but the book
is that good).

Neil Kirby
...att!archie!nak