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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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Subject: (sidebar to) Computer Organization Text Needed
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Date: 5 Sep 88 20:20:52 GMT
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In article <1764@puff.cs.wisc.edu> upl@puff.CS.WISC.EDU writes:
>>Why are Karnough maps important to computer organization?
>>In fact, why would you want to use Karnough mapping on any digital system?
> 

From article <420@eecea.eece.ksu.edu>, by gordon@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Dwight Gordon): 
> As a non-[electrical engineer, computer engineer, computer scientist], you 
> are rather opinionated with regard to this field and Karnaugh mapping.  I
> find it best to limit my comments to those areas where I have some experience
> as well as a "little" knowledge.

Perhaps he's read the discussion of "teaching what is easy to teach,
not what's important" that occurred on the net and in the ACM sigs a
few years ago, or has heard about it... It specifically used certain
gate-minimizing techniques as an example.

It is often wise to take what you're being taught with a grain of
salt, and ask the practitioners **their** opinions.

--dave (Dwight, that sounded a LOT like a reflex-flame) c-b
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