Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution 2-Volume Set | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gerrit A. Blaauw, Frederick P. Brooks
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1050850
Media: Paperback
Edition: Facsimile
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Pages: 1264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0201105578
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.22
EAN: 9780201105575
ASIN: 0201105578
Publication Date: March 2, 1997
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Product Description
In this remarkable book on computer design, long-known in the field and widely used in manuscript form, Gerrit A. Blaauw and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. provide a definitive guide and reference for practicing computer architects and for students. The book complements Brooks' recently updated classic, The Mythical Man-Month, focusing here on the design of hardware and there on software, here on the content of computer architecture and there on the process of architecture design. The book's focus on architecture issues complements Blaauw's early work on implementation techniques. Having experienced most of the computer age, the authors draw heavily on their first-hand knowledge, emphasizing timeless insights and observations. Blaauw and Brooks first develop a conceptual framework for understanding computer architecture. They then describe not only what present architectural practice is, but how it came to be so. A major theme is the early divergence and the later reconvergence of computer architectures. They examine both innovations that survived and became part of the standard computer, and the many ideas that were explored in real machines but did not survive. In describing the discards, they also address why these ideas did not make it. The authors' goals are to analyze and systematize familiar design alternatives, and to introduce you to unfamiliar ones. They illuminate their discussion with detailed executable descriptions of both early and more recent computers. The designer's most important study, they argue, is other people's designs. This book's computer zoo will give you a unique resource for precise information about 30 important machines. Armed with the factors pro and con on the various known solutions to design problems, you will be better able to determine the most fruitful architectural course for your own design.
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Much deeper than a mere Computer Architecture text May 10, 1998
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I took Fred Brooks' Advanced Computer Architecture course years ago in graduate school. My father said, quite correctly, that it was like taking a theology course from Jesus. This book, in its then-preprint form, was the text, and I eventually wore my photocopied version out completely. (Thank goodness it finally came out in conventional binding.)I am now a software architect, doing internet work in Java. I don't think I can work for an hour without referring to some concept that Fred taught in the course, or in this book. Read it. Study it. The only thing that could be better would be to take the course from Fred.
An outstanding book for the serious computer architect. December 10, 1997
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This 1000-page book is a tour-de-force of computer architecture design principles. I learned from and then taught several graduate computer science classes using the manuscript several years ago, and have always considered it to be the definitive work in the field. It certainly guided my work in co-architecting the Alpha computer systems. While at first brush many of the examples seem dated (the book only discusses the first computer in a series, such as the 8086 rather than the Pentium), upon further reflection one realizes that the design principles are instead timeless. This book is longer than "War and Peace" and is not a light read, but many buyers will keep and use it for a lifetime.
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