19 Nov
2017
19 Nov
'17
8:14 a.m.
I want to say that earlier editions of ?Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective? had a
bunch of discussions of buses etc in addition to assembly, compilers, linking, etc. but
the edition I have explicitly calls out that they felt like it wasn?t important to have
chapters on anymore :(
On Nov 19, 2017, at 2:29 AM, Huw Davies via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 19 Nov 2017, at 10:57, Eric Christopherson via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Basically, I'm looking for a certain book (although really any book in
the same vein would satisfy), which was on computer system architecture,
organization, etc.; it talked about the usual boolean logic, assembly
programming in some fictitious instruction set, an overview of two
actual architectures (I think at that time they were 32-bit x86 and
64-bit POWER). The other thing I remember very specifically was there
was a place near the back (probably an appendix) that talked about
one or more specific buses (I think at least PCI was there), with timing
diagrams to tell you what was actually going back and forth between the
bus and CPU.
Sounds like either
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by David Patterson and John Hennessy
Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface by David Patterson and
John Hennessy
I see there?s a MIPS edition of the second book. My copy of the second book has Hennessy
as the first author.
Time for a re-read - it?s been a while since I read both of them.
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