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Hold on, don't you mean Computer Organization and Design, by the same authors? The one with these pages: https://books.google.com/books?id=RXARim9cNBIC&pg=PA28

• scott_s 13y ago
  They're different books. "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" is an introduction to the subject for people who will work in the area. "Computer Organization and Design" is for people who need to understand how processors and hardware systems work in order to do their own work. (Mostly.) The preface to "Organization and Design" says basically this. For what it's worth, "Computer Architecture" is sitting on my shelf, and that's what I used in grad school. But based on their preface, I may buy "Organization and Design" because it may be a better reference for what I do day-to-day.