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Summary: A Text In Strong Company
Review: Heuring & Jordan covers all of the key areas of computer architecture but has sparse description. I did not like this book as a course text when I was in college and I still do not care for it as an engineering reference. For all aspects of computer architecture I find Patterson & Hennessy's explanations more clear and their examples more illuminating.
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Summary: A Text In Strong Company
Review: Heuring & Jordan covers all of the key areas of computer architecture but has sparse description. I did not like this book as a course text when I was in college and I still do not care for it as an engineering reference. For all aspects of computer architecture I find Patterson & Hennessy's explanations more clear and their examples more illuminating.
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Summary: For first-course undergrads, this book is unusable
Review: I don't doubt this is a good book for graduate level readers, but I am a straight-A undergraduate student in computer science and I got absolutely nothing out of this book. I think the only reason our school uses it is for the simplified SRC assembly language it uses, which I agree is very nice. But as an introduction to logic gates, binary arithmetic, basic computer architecture, etc., (the stuff you cover in the undergrad computer architecture class), you better hope you have a decent teacher and make sure you go to class!
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Summary: It's too bad...
Review: I've had Vincent Heuring as a professor. All I can say about the book is that it's a good reference for a professor doesn't cover his own material well. He attempted to explain things in class, but could never quite come through. The books helped greatly in clarifying his lectures.
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Summary: The book that contains things practically helpful!
Review: In a word, this is a very nice compact book of Computer Architecture. Anytime can be referenced..
I found there is almost all to understand the process and design simple processors by myself(especially helpful for pipenlined RISC)
I think study will be more effiecient if you have also Henney & Patterson's books.
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Summary: Very nice book!
Review: It's a very good technical book where it doesn't spend any time teaching everything from the beginning of computing and goes directly to the subject.Talks about the RISC computers mostly, and very well covers most low level aspects..
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Summary: It's too bad...
Review: This is an excellent text for learning architecture. Ideal for anyone who needs to discover how computers work.
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Summary: Good book for introductory level
Review: This book builds knowledge from ground up so it is a very good book for people who have no background in computer science or computer engineering. Appendices are very neccessary materials if a reader has no background in this area at all so I would recommend to read the appendices first if you have no background.
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Summary: Good book for introductory level
Review: This book builds knowledge from ground up so it is a very good book for people who have no background in computer science or computer engineering. Appendices are very neccessary materials if a reader has no background in this area at all so I would recommend to read the appendices first if you have no background.
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Summary: A good introductory book on computer design
Review: This book provides good coverage of all of the basics of computer design. It's modern and up-to-date and covers everything from the very basics to more advanced concepts like pipelining and parallelism. The authors follow through a RISC computer example that they build on as they introduce concepts. It is useful to see a practical application of the concepts as they are introduced. This edition of the book has a bunch of typos but all in all it is a good book
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