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I too loved "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach", and read it all the way through before the semester even started. Each chapter had a pithy quote
by timb07 9y ago
I too loved "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach", and read it all the way through before the semester even started.
Each chapter had a pithy quote at the start, and my favorite was the excerpt from the EDSAC instruction set:
Z -- Halt and Ring Bell: Stop the machine and ring the warning bell
- onikolas 9y agoMeh, it has a lot of fallacies and pitfalls.
- jacobolus 9y agoCan you elaborate a bit? Unsubstantiated drive-by insults aren’t very useful to other readers. Edit: thanks for the explanation. Note to the several downvoters: you aren’t accomplishing much here by “punishing” innocent unfamiliarity with an in-joke...
- warkdarrior 9y agoIt's a joke. Every chapter in the book has a section titled "Fallacies and Pitfalls" describing commonly held beliefs that should be avoided for the topic of that chapter. See for example page 58 here: https://books.google.com/books?id=cM8mDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA58#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=cM8mDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...
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- gargarplex 9y agoCan you recommend a book that would serve as a useful prerequisite to CA: AQA? Based on your recommendation, I flipped through the first few pages on Amazon, but it felt a lot like Algebra 2 without knowing Algebra 1.
- torinmr 9y agoAt my university CA: AQA was used as the text for the second course in computer architecture. The first course in computer architecture used this book: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-Fourth-Architecture/dp/0123747503/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=E214BA3CMPK44D3AAGXQ https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-Fourth-A.... If you do get around to reading CA: AQA, you can follow along with this Coursera course (it's taught by the professor I had when I took it at Princeton, and he does a great job teaching it): https://www.coursera.org/learn/comparch https://www.coursera.org/learn/comparch
- gargarplex 9y agoI don't have enough patience for courses. I sort of scan the material for what I really need or want to learn and ignore what's not interesting to me. I can make consistent A's with the benefit of Adderall, but I don't feel comfortable with that. Your recommendation was very useful and interesting to me, and I bought the paperback. I was surprised that it was cheaper to buy a used paperback than to rent it via Kindle for a month.
- sidzpah 9y agoIt's another book by the same author - Computer Organisation and design : the hardware/software interface - http://a.co/aQYK7DG http://a.co/aQYK7DG
- jdironman 9y agoIf you want a more in-depth look at the book a quick google found me this on the first page results. https://github.com/QSCTech/zju-icicles/blob/master/%E8%AE%A1%E7%AE%97%E6%9C%BA%E4%BD%93%E7%B3%BB%E7%BB%93%E6%9E%84/%E6%95%99%E6%9D%90/Computer%20Architecture%20-%20A%20Quantitative%20Approach%20(Fifth%20Edition).pdf https://github.com/QSCTech/zju-icicles/blob/master/%E8%AE%A1...
- MaxBarraclough 9y agoSeconded, that's a great book. Also, Hennessy was also one of the minds behind the MIPS architecture.