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From: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
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Subject: Re: intro text suggestions
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Date: 1 Nov 90 21:56:22 GMT
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In article <32580001@hpcuha.cup.hp.com>, bhabeck@hpcuha.cup.hp.com (William Habeck) writes:
!> Ashley Stevens (astevens@acorn.co.uk) writes:
|> > I recommend 'Computer Architecture: A Quantitive Approach' by John Hennessy
|> > and David Patterson.
|> Even though I haven't read the whole book, I would second the recommendation.
|> The Stanford University classes EE182 (Computer Organization) and EE282 
|> (Computer Architecture and Organization) each have only one required textbook
|> and _Computer_Architecture:_A_Quantitative_Approach_ is it.  EE182 is an
|> undergraduate class; 282 is graduate (and taught by Hennessy!).  The book cost
|> about $50 at the Stanford Bookstore.

Or if you want the other guy, Patterson (who coined the term "RISC") teaches
EECS 252, Graduate Computer Architecture, using the book at UC Berkeley.

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Joe Buck
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