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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Deja vu?  Architecture book name?
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Date: 7 Feb 90 22:05:59 GMT
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In article <8861@portia.Stanford.EDU> underdog@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>In article <12660001@hpcuha.HP.COM> kulkarni@hpcuha.HP.COM (Sandeep Kulkarni) writes:
>|I know this was mentioned in this newsgroup some time ago, but I can't seem to
>|remember the discussion.  Could someone e-mail me the name of the
>|not-yet-released architecture book by Hennessy and Patterson.  I'd like the
>|name of the publishers of the book too.
>
>The book is "Computer Architecture:  A Quantitative Approach",
>published by Kaufman.
>
>I've read several of the chapters; they are interesting.
>However, you'll have to take one assertion in the preface (introduction?)
>with a grain of salt.  There, the authors claim that 
>computer architecture WILL become a hard science like physics
>and chemistry and that this book is a step in that
>direction--hence, the reason for the title.  (chuckle) 
There is still room for experience and taste in architecture, but more of
the kind of analysis in this book is really needed.

To correct an error above, and also [since I get several emails a week
on this], here is a definitive reference, contacts, and all other info
I've got:
	John A. Hennessy & David L. Patterson:
	"Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach"
	Morgan Kaufman [415-965-4081, 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 260,
	San Mateo, CA 94403.]

I hear it's supposed to be in bookstores by mid-March; or contact the
publisher and reserve a copy. Costs about $50.

Note: just to be clear, I have no financial connection with this, and at
least one of the authors knows I have no inhibitions against telling him
he's worng when he is.... but:

I've read the beta copy, and I think it's going to be a terrific book,
a classic for years for both working engineers and students.
Anybody who follows this newsgroup seriously should have one; many of the
silly arguments would disappear and we could get on to other things...
-- 
-john mashey	DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
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