20 Sep
2014
20 Sep
'14
9:17 p.m.
On Sep 20, 2014, at 5:13 PM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:
Not sure if everyone here already owns a copy, but the
book "Computer
Engineering: A DEC view of hardware systems design" by Bell et al. offers a
really nice look at the historical origins of all the various PDP lines.
Plenty of cheap copies to be had with paper books going out of style
amongst the majority :) The copy I picked up second-hand actually appears
to have come from the hallowed halls of Xerox PARC (unfortunately no big
names on the date due slip...) Another very interesting Bell et al. text
that I enjoy is "Computer Structures: Principles and Examples" though it is
(very) much less DEC-centric.
The square book... that is a nice broad overview of lots of different computer
architectures up to the 1970s. It nicely demonstrates how many different ways people
found to design stuff, and why.
paul