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 | | Principles of Computer Architecture by Miles Murdocca, Vincent P. Heuring ISBN-10: 9780201436648 ISBN-10: 0-201-43664-7 ISBN-13: 9780201436648 ISBN-13: 978-0-201-43664-8 Hardcover 1999-11-29 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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Confusing and filled with errors This book was the required text for a fundamental class in a graduate-level program. In general, explanations and descriptions are vague and lack the detail needed to promote learning and understanding. There are misspellings and factual errors in the text and in the diagrams, and my instructor has had to point out errors in the review questions. I have ordered two copies of this book. The first one fell apart after 2 weeks of use. The second one made it nearly to the end of the semester before the spine disintegrated. I treat my books with great care, so I am certain that this is a quality issue with the binder. At $107, this 553-page book is obscenely expensive. This is especially true since it fell apart and so can't be sold as used. I give it two stars because the typography and design are reasonably good. The book is well organized, has plenty of tables and diagrams, and relevant words are highlighted in the text. This does not save it from poor writing and editing, unfortunately. | ||
A Must book! Though this book is not as popular as H&P, but it gives a concrete illustrate examples on how the problems can been conquerred and resolved (you can check both authors backgrounds to find out why). Any serious computer sciences or computer engineering majors should have this book as their standard reference book on the shelf in case anybody asking any nuts and bots questions regarding CA. | ||
WOW! I love this book! I you are serious about learning what actually happens inside the computer and how it works, how your C program is translated into machine code - from C -> Preprocessor -> Assembler -> Object Code and how the computer executes the object code. + a lot of hardware stuff, digital logic, binary arithmetic and more. This is THE BOOK! You might need to read the chapters in this book a couple of times to fully understand it. But this book really helps you to understand what going on inside that beige box. Do yourself a favor, buy this book! | ||
Clearly written? The previous reader must have been ... "confused", to say the least ... the book is plainly horrible, it tries to explain some simple examples and then throws a lot of difficult stuff that is barely explained or not at all ... no answers to problems ... mistakes ... i don't know what to say, but certainly not recommended for undergrad use. | ||
Excellent source for part II of GRE Subject Computer Science I am preparing GRE subject computer science and I needed couple of books to refresh my knowledge... Well, this one pretty well covers ALL aspects of the part II (Computer Organization and Architecture) which is 20% of the exam. I guess the book is usefull as a textbook for undergraduate studies as well but since I did not graduated in USA, I don't really know. So, if you don't have any similar book and you want to prepare GRE CS, this might be one of references. | ||