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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
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Subject: Re: Comp. Architecture & Organization (the class)
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Date: 28 Apr 88 04:11:21 GMT
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In article <3952@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> tlh@cs.purdue.EDU (Thomas L Hausmann) writes:
>  o  What are good texts for such classes?  

I've just about summarized the counts.  As an unexpected bonus, several
people recommended architecture books.  I present these now.

Note: one correspondent noted (quite truly):
Most of the computers above are really all about the same.

One person wrote:
Jean-Loup Baer, "Computer Systems Architecture", Computer Science Press; 1980

Another wrote:
I am not really an architecture person, but my favorite intro to architecture
book is Tanenbaum's "Structured Computer Organization".  The guy is a
supurb writer, one of the best in CS, he really knows what he is talking
about and obviously has a lot of experience teaching.
[I own this, basically, only 3 machines in detail, but well written. It's
makes a good companion to the slighter weaker book on Computer Networks.]

I suggest the following:
I would also like to add Sieworek, Bell and Newell (Computer Stuctures: .*)
while although slightly biased to a DEC view has many good papers like the
IBM/360, Cray, Alto, Burroughs, Illiac, etc.  The problem with this book is
the sheer cost ($$$) and physical mass.

Also notable is Stone's book which has appeared in a new edition.

I believe all these authors read comp.arch (or have read in the past).

Another gross generalization from

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