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From: hui@joplin.mpr.ca (Michael Hui)
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Subject: Re: Cyrix - Fast Divide, etc.
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Date: 14 Dec 89 19:33:39 GMT
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In article <112400014@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> afgg6490@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>(You know what I would like? I'd like to have a "Art of Computer Architecture"
>series much like Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming", with sections on
>arithmetic, instruction sets, memory and busses, I/O, compilers, and so 
>on...  If it doesn't exist, I'd like to write it, but I don't have time or
>$$ to do so.)

Or petition Seymour Cray to do it, as a retirement project.

(PLEASE, no misunderstandings here. I am not passing judgement on who is
most "fit" to do it. The above is just a random thought from a telecom
engineer, not a computer design engineer.)