I have to second fitten.<BR><BR>I just did an comp architecture class and we used "Computer systems Organization and Architecture" by Carpinelli.<BR><BR>It was a decent book, the first few chapters ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

During the 1970s many different computer architectures were being developed, many of them focused on making computer systems easier and more effective to use. The Flex Machine developed at the UK ...

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