woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan) (06/04/90)
I know that someone posted this in the past few weeks, but I tried grep'ing through our /usr/spool/news directories to no avail, so it must have already expired here. Could someone post the complete publishers information on the new architecture book by Hennesey(sp?) and Patterson. I believe it is titled "Computer Architecture, A Quantitative Approach" and was released in February. For some reason BookStop, here in Texas, is unable to order it yet... Ron -- +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@peyote.cactus.org +
mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) (06/04/90)
In article <840@peyote.cactus.org> woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan) writes: >Could someone post the complete publishers information on the new >architecture book by Hennesey(sp?) >and Patterson. I believe it is >titled "Computer Architecture, A Quantitative Approach" and was >released in February. > >For some reason BookStop, here in Texas, is unable to order it yet... Patterson, David A. and Hennessey, John L., _Computer_Architecture:_A_ Quantitative_Approach_, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Mateo, California, Copyright 1990, ISBN 1-55880-069-8. I recommend ordering it from Taylors Books, Arapaho & Montfort [near Prestonwood center], Dallas. -- -- Mark Johnson MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques M/S 2-02, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408) 524-8308 mark@mips.com {or ...!decwrl!mips!mark}
faiman@m.cs.uiuc.edu (06/04/90)
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, John L Hennessy and David A Patterson, Morgan Kauffman, San Mateo CA, 1990
aglew@oberon.csg.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) (06/05/90)
Computer architecture: a quantitative approach David A. Patterson John L. Hennessy ISBN 1-55880-069-8 QA76.9.A73P777 1190 Morgan Kaufman Publishers Inc. Order from: POBox 50490 Palo Alto CA 94303-9953 415-965-4081 415-578-9911 -- Andy Glew, aglew@uiuc.edu
morgan@unix.SRI.COM (Morgan Kaufmann) (06/12/90)
In article <840@peyote.cactus.org> woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan) writes: >I know that someone posted this in the past few weeks, but I tried >grep'ing through our /usr/spool/news directories to no avail, so it >must have already expired here. Could someone post the complete >publishers information on the new architecture book by Hennesey(sp?) >and Patterson. I believe it is titled "Computer Architecture, A Quantitative >Approach" and was released in February. > Reposting: COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH, by John Hennessy (Stanford) and Dave Patterson (UC Berkeley). This book is now available through technical bookstores, and should be in-stock at the larger stores in major cities. It can also be ordered directly from the publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2929 Campus Drive, Ste 260, San Mateo, CA 94403, Tel 415/965-4081. VISA, Mastercard, personal checks and money orders will be accepted. The cost of the title is $54.95 plus $3.50 shipping/handling for each copy ordered. Contents: 1. Fundamentals of Computer Design. 2. Performance & Cost. 3. Instruction Set Design: Alternatives and Principles. 4. Instruction Set Examples and Measurements of Use. 5. Basic Processor Implementation Techniques. 6. Pipelining. 7. Vector Processors. 8. Memory Hierarchy Design. 9. Input/Output. 10. Future Directions & Parallel Computation. Appendices: A) Computer Arithmetic, by David Goldberg (Xerox PARC) B) Complete Instruction Set Tables (VAX, 360, 8086) C) Detailed Instruction Set Measurements (VAX, 360, 8086, DLX) D) Time Versus Frequency Measurements (VAX 11/780, IBM 370/168, 8086 in an IBM PC, DLX) E) Survey of RISC Architectures (DLX, i860, MIPS, M88000, SPARC). Another title of interest that expands upon performance issues for cache and memeory hierarchies is due to be published May 27th, also from Morgan Kaufmann: CACHE & MEMORY HIERARCHY DESIGN: A PERFORMANCE DIRECTED APPROACH, by Steven A. Przybylski (MIPS), $33.95 Contents: Intro. Background Material. The Cache Design Problem and its Solution. Performance)Directed Cache Design. Multi-Level Cache Hierarchies. Summary, Implications and Conclusions. Appendices: A) Validation of Empirical Results, B) Modeling Write Strategy Effects.
nakman@cbnewsk.att.com (neil.a.kirby) (06/12/90)
>COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH, by John Hennessy >(Stanford) and Dave Patterson (UC Berkeley). > > >This book is now available through technical bookstores, and should be >in-stock at the larger stores in major cities. It can also be ordered >directly from the publisher: > >Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, >2929 Campus Drive, Ste 260, >San Mateo, CA 94403, >Tel 415/965-4081. >VISA, Mastercard, personal checks and money orders will be accepted. >The cost of the title is $54.95 plus $3.50 shipping/handling for >each copy ordered. To any architecture instructors: I just finished evaluating this book for our graduate level architecture class and it is a GENERATION ahead of all of the other books we evaluated. All of the other books considered get put in a pile marked 'nowhere near as good as this one.' To the rest of comp.arch - I suggest getting a copy of this and reading it for professional reasons. I was learning new things from reading this book which was not true of the other books we evaluated. I have no connection with MK publishing except as a happy user of their book. Sorry if this violates your idea of no commercialism (but the book is that good). Neil Kirby ...att!archie!nak