> From: Eric Christopherson
> I have an inside scoop that a certain library is about to get rid of
> their 2003 printing (which is apparently 1st edition)
ABE seems to have copies for around US$10:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=on&cm_sp=SearchF-_-Advtab1-_
Huw Davies wrote:
> Sounds like either
>
> Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by David Patterson and John
> Hennessy
>
> Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface by David
> Patterson and John Hennessy
>
> I see there’s a MIPS edition of the second book. My copy
On 11/19/2017 12:29 AM, Huw Davies via cctalk wrote:
On 19 Nov 2017, at 10:57, Eric Christopherson via cctalk
wrote:
Basically, I'm looking for a certain book (although really any book in
the same vein would satisfy), which was on computer system architecture,
organization, etc.; it talked
I have the second edition (there appears to now be a third out!) but
re-reading the preface and "what's changed since the first edition" doesn't
seem to say what I remembered re: buses (namely, it says nothing at all).
It is possibly my professors were referring to a much earlier
course/textbook (o
> From: Sophie Haskins
> earlier editions of "Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective" had a
> bunch of discussions of buses etc .. but the edition I have explicitly
> calls out that they felt like it wasn't important to have chapters on
> anymore :(
Well, that might not b
I want to say that earlier editions of “Computer Systems: A Programmers
Perspective” had a bunch of discussions of buses etc in addition to assembly,
compilers, linking, etc. but the edition I have explicitly calls out that they
felt like it wasn’t important to have chapters on anymore :(
> On
> On 19 Nov 2017, at 10:57, Eric Christopherson via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Basically, I'm looking for a certain book (although really any book in
> the same vein would satisfy), which was on computer system architecture,
> organization, etc.; it talked about the usual boolean logic, assembly
> pr
The fascinating discussion Jim just started on buses got me thinking
again about a book I've been trying to track down for a while. While
it's not necessarily classic-computing-oriented, it's not really about
newfangled computers either; heck, I encountered it in 2003 or so, so
it'd be pretty dated
