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Summary: excellent text
Review: First of all, this book is a very dry read; extremely boring. The concepts aren't very clear and the book as a whole is unorganized; the first chapters refer to things in later chapters and makes everything hard to comprehend. The questions in the back of the chapters are difficult to ansewr because the content of the chapters don't help in answering them. In addition, there is a countless amount of spelling errors and numerical errors in the book. And this is the 6th edition of the book!! I expected so much more from this!! It makes me angry that this book is so bad. The cover is nice though if you get the hardcover edition, but i suggest getting the cheaper international edition because there are no color diagrams in the entire book. What a waste of 100 dollars!!
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Summary: obviously not edited well
Review: First of all, this book is a very dry read; extremely boring. The concepts aren't very clear and the book as a whole is unorganized; the first chapters refer to things in later chapters and makes everything hard to comprehend. The questions in the back of the chapters are difficult to ansewr because the content of the chapters don't help in answering them. In addition, there is a countless amount of spelling errors and numerical errors in the book. And this is the 6th edition of the book!! I expected so much more from this!! It makes me angry that this book is so bad. The cover is nice though if you get the hardcover edition, but i suggest getting the cheaper international edition because there are no color diagrams in the entire book. What a waste of 100 dollars!!
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Summary: Decent text, lame exercises
Review: I am sort of in between all the other reviwers on this one. The text seems okay for a intro. into the subject. There is enough information to teach a class and I assume it _is_ designed for someone with little to no previous knowledge in computer architecture. Although it sure does help when they hit assembly language instructions in chapter 3!That's why it's so confusing when you hit the exercises in the back of each chapter. Where did these come from? Very little of it can be answered by reading the book, the teacher of my class was only able to answer the questions due to experience outside of the field. Most of the answers start with "it depends on . . ." and the answers really didn't come from anywhere in the book. Most of the questions are trick questions and this isn't a way to teach, but it is a way to confuse the reader. I guess I'm reviewing the book in the same way the book reads. Sorry. And sorry to anyone required to use this text!
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Summary: Good book
Review: I thought this book was a pretty good text book. The reading was fairly easy. The layout is good. It has good references and examples. I had to have it for my class but I did read a lot of it.
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Summary: Good book
Review: I thought this book was a pretty good text book. The reading was fairly easy. The layout is good. It has good references and examples. I had to have it for my class but I did read a lot of it.
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Summary: Useful tool for understanding the subject
Review: I was refered to this text by a professional in the field, and I'm grateful for the help. This text was well organized, and I found it written to a level I could understand without too much difficulty. The use of diagrams and tables made assimilating information quicker and easier than other texts I've tried studying.
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Summary: Explains a large topic area quite well.
Review: I was surprised by some of the low ratings of this book. Overall, it is clearly written and the graphics are very helpful to understanding the material. Some coverage at the logic gate level would be useful in future editions - I ended up surfing the web for this information. All in all, this is a good text for a CompSci course. However, it would be difficult to recommend it for self-study unless the reader is already comfortable with technical material.
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Summary: Well organized, clear, easy to understand.
Review: I'm surprised that this book has pretty low ratings from other readers. It is well-organized, clear and easy to understand. I've gone through one other computer architecture textbook, and it was highly technical, and difficult to follow. Surprisingly, this text got good ratings.
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Summary: Extremely difficult book to read
Review: If it were not for choosing this book, I might have passed the subject. What could be explained easily has been explained in the most difficult manner possible. Display of erudition should be left for research paper and not dumped on University students. The only reason this book sells is that there are few books that cover all those topics and faculties are forced to choose it. Don't buy it unless it is a required text.
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Summary: computer organization and architecture are very important
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