I find it very frustrating. There are nuggets of interesting and relevant historical info and the central message of 'ISA isn't the most important thing for hig

I find it very frustrating. There are nuggets of interesting and relevant historical info and the central message of 'ISA isn't the most important thing for high end CPUs' is something I'd broadly agree with. But it's all mixed with factual errors and iffy opinions (the Patterson and Hennessy textbook really isn't 'horrible').