Gordon Bell wins S. Cray Award

Hi Noel, I agree wholeheartedly with regard to "A DEC view of hardware systems design" it is a great book and a must-have for anyone interested in DEC hardware. Now, my Computer Structures: Principles and Examples is a 1982 printing. I see there are two very similarly titled but discrete books by Bell et al. One is Computer Structures: Principles and Examples and one is Computer Structures: Readings and Examples. I had thought Readings & Examples was the older one and Principles & Examples was the newer one but I am not certain. The list of titles in the McGraw-Hill Computer Science Series at the front of the book, implies both were published concurrently, though I am not clear that this was actually the case. The two books you have are both titled Principles and Examples and cover different material? Just curious... As you note, the 1982 printing includes PDPs, VAX, IBM 360, IBM S/38, Cray, CDC, Burroughs, STARAN, Illiac IV, AM29xx, PIC (?!) etc. Runs the whole gamut from mainframe to micro. It never fails to pique my interest, reading about all the different approaches to computer architecture that were tried. If the earlier printing is materially different I'll have to add it to my watchlist. I have the IBM's Early Computers text on MIT Press which gives pretty good coverage to the pre-S/360 IBM world.