Computer Organization and Architecture

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Summary: computer organization and architecture are very important
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Summary: What a pitiful read.
Review: Sincerely, I know some people look at these reviews and decide to ignore them. DO NOT IGNORE THE BAD RATINGS this book receives! Trust me, to get a hold on digital computer achitectures and organization, look up the authors Mano & Kime for beginning logic and computer organization, and ESPECIALLY Patterson & Hennessey for all levels of technical readers. These (Patterson & Hennessey) guys wrote two different comp. arch texts that are widely considered the industry standard! AND...they have appendices to help explain the tought stuff! Trust me, enter their names and find those books. They are 5 stars compared to this 1 star book.

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Summary: This is a very easy to understand book
Review: This book doesn't contain any logic gate level designs but covers general computer organisation issues thoroughly. It is only 670 pages approximately and covers instruction set design, CPU structure (ALU + control unit), I/O (such as SCSI, FireWire and RAID), Bus systems (PCI, Futurebus+) and operating systems etc. There are numerous comparisons made between Intel Pentium and PowerPC. It is a good book to start with a very good bibliography for more detailed books on each chapter's subject.

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Summary: No Depth
Review: This book is for someone who has no concept of computer architecture. The book discusses every area quiet vaugely. If you are looking for a book that will help you understand computer architecture then this is not the one. I would recommend you read "Computer Architecture A Quatitative Approach," by Hennessy and Patterson.

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Summary: Who wrote this book?!
Review: This book is very disorganize. The exercise at the end of each chapter has nothing to do with the chapter itself. It almost seems like the exercise came from a different book. I bought it because it's a class requirement.

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Summary: Boring Book
Review: This book is written using a very sparse manner of exposing ideas. Reading it is a hard and exhaustive task. I can't imagine why would they give it the 1996 TEXTY award. Buy it only if you are required to do so or if you can handle some sort of dynamic reading. Otherwise get something else (there are many other publications on the subject) since this is just a boring and demotivating book.

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Summary: Over Complicated
Review: This book tries to over-complicate most of its subject matter. Many of its topics are more easily understood by referencing other texts (or even internet references). The end of chapter questions rarely seem to reference material read in the chapter. Rarely can you review an illustration or table that is on the same page that is referencing it. I almost got the impression that the author was trying very hard to display his intelligence by not presenting the material in a manner that could be understood.

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Summary: 1 star is too many
Review: This book was a requirement for class, and one that the whole class (including the instructor) found to be a waste of time. It is VERY unorganized, and the questions at the end of each chapter are misleading. I read chapter 10 at least 5 times, and still couldn't answer most of the questions. Luckily when I got to class I realized that no one else could either. Hopefully in the future the professor will look into another book that promotes learning.

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Summary: 1 star is too many
Review: This book was a requirement for class, and one that the whole class (including the instructor) found to be a waste of time. It is VERY unorganized, and the questions at the end of each chapter are misleading. I read chapter 10 at least 5 times, and still couldn't answer most of the questions. Luckily when I got to class I realized that no one else could either. Hopefully in the future the professor will look into another book that promotes learning.

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Summary: Read under Protest
Review: This book was adopted by my CSci department for a Computer Arch course. The only reason I believe is because the instructor needed a book as obscure and difficult as he is. AVOID THIS BOOK AT ALL COSTS! I was double stung by the fact that I had to wade through it's disconnected minutia and struggle to answer it's questions to pass a required course. I do not recommend it for students, professors OR the gentle reader. It is definietly NOT a learning tool!