lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon) (12/15/89)
I'm looking for a book..... Timing of gift isn't anytime soon. Recipient has a BS in computer engineering, and wants a book on computer architecture that's more up-to-date than his text, includes micros, minis, mainframes, supers, etc. I couldn't convince him that Digital's "VAX Hardware Architecture Manual" was _the_ book on computer architecture (I'm a VMS system manager :-), so I'm looking for suggesstions. I'm sure he wants a technical book, one that a CS major with a weak math or hardware background would be afraid to tackle. And I'm sure that he'd like a book that mentions software. Thanks! --- Esther Lumsdon David Taylor Research Center Annapolis Lab cm 301-267-3816 av 281-3816
mbutts@mentor.com (Mike Butts) (12/16/89)
From article <571@nems.dt.navy.mil>, by lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon): > I'm looking for a book..... > > Timing of gift isn't anytime soon. Recipient has a BS in computer engineering, > and wants a book on computer architecture that's more up-to-date than > his text, includes micros, minis, mainframes, supers, etc. I couldn't > convince him that Digital's "VAX Hardware Architecture Manual" was _the_ > book on computer architecture (I'm a VMS system manager :-), so I'm > looking for suggesstions. > > I'm sure he wants a technical book, one that a CS major with a weak > math or hardware background would be afraid to tackle. And I'm sure > that he'd like a book that mentions software. I just received a flyer on a new book, "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach", by John Hennessy of Stanford and David Patterson of Berkeley, which will be available in February from Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers in Palo Alto. Hennessy and Patterson, of course, are, between the two of them, most of the major early proponents of RISC thinking, and leaders of the efforts that have flowered into use as the MIPS and SPARC architectures, respectively. I plan on getting a copy. You may find this fits your requirements. -- Michael Butts, Research Engineer KC7IT 503-626-1302 Mentor Graphics Corp., 8500 SW Creekside Place, Beaverton, OR 97005 !{sequent,tessi,apollo}!mntgfx!mbutts mbutts@pdx.MENTOR.COM Opinions are my own, not necessarily those of Mentor Graphics Corp.
markd@silogic.UUCP (Mark DiVecchio) (12/16/89)
In article <571@nems.dt.navy.mil> lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Esther Lumsdon) writes: >I'm looking for a book..... >I'm sure he wants a technical book, one that a CS major with a weak >math or hardware background would be afraid to tackle. And I'm sure >that he'd like a book that mentions software. My favorite Structured Computer Architecture, 3rd Edition Andrew Tanenbaum Prentice Hall -- Mark DiVecchio, Silogic Systems, 619-549-9841 K3FWT 9888 Carroll Center Road, Suite 113, San Diego, CA 92126 ...!ucsd!celerity!celit!silogic!markd ...!ucsd!ucsdhub!celit!silogic!markd celit!silogic!markd@fps.com BBS 619-549-3927
bruce@think.com (Bruce Walker) (12/16/89)
If you can wait two months, I highly recommend a new book by Patterson & Hennessy called "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" to be published in February by Morgan Kaufmann. -- --Bruce Walker, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA bruce@think.com, think!bruce, bjn@mitvma.bitnet; +1 617 876 1111