> When I started, I had very little idea about what makes a good ISA, and, as far as I can tell, this isn’t formally taught anywhere. ISA principles are covere

> When I started, I had very little idea about what makes a good ISA, and, as far as I can tell, this isn’t formally taught anywhere. ISA principles are covered in Hennessy and Patterson's Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. But then they've been relegated there out to an appendix. In addition to not being formally taught, they're de-emphasized.