It is always the case that two books are vastly different from one to
another… So sure, it is a taste that matters. As an example, I heard
and/or read that intel is now having heuristic based caches L1, L2, L3 ( yes
one extra layer ) and these kinds of approach is sufficiently advanced, but
if someone gets the fundamental out of their way, following the advance path
should be an easy step …
- It is easy to read
- Has lot of exercise make one think.
- Extreemly close to what we do and think while on the keyboard doing
systems programming…
HP is more useful for those actually try to design new processor families
and / or perf related work. For programmers I would say it is a second
choice. HP was also my text book for one semister long time back :-).
-pro
----- Original Message -----
From: “Spiro Trikaliotis”
To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:35 AM
Subject: Re:[ntdev] Book on Processor Architecture
> Hello,
>
> Prokash Sinha wrote:
>
> > Assuming that, IF POSSIBLE, look at the book
> >
> > “Computer Systems - A programmers perspective” by Randal E Bryant and
David
> > O’Hallaron. Lots of exercise using x86 but using “as” and not very
> > difficult to convert to masm…
> >
> > This is a text of CMU undergrads, fundamentally sound and clear :-).
>
> I can second that this book is a good starting point. This book is
> really very easy to read. Anyway, it’s “just” a good starting point as
> many things are oversimplified. A collegue has partially used that book
> for making a university course.
>
> Regards,
> Spiro.
>
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