Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!saturn!ucscc.UCSC.EDU!haynes From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Books to read before thinking about computer architecture Message-ID: <9262@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 01:26:17 GMT References: <28168@winchester.mips.COM> <9858@venera.isi.edu> <657@unicads.UUCP> <22580@cup.portal.com> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU.UUCP (Jim Haynes) Organization: California State Home for the Weird Lines: 19 In article <22580@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes: >One of my personal favorites is ELECTRONIC BRAINS by Edmund C. Berkeley. Ah, my first computer book too! Believe the title is GIANT BRAINS. And Berkeley wrote a series of articles in the early 1950s Radio-Electronics magazine, giving circuits for gates and boolean algebra and a description of SEAC. >BTW, Edmund C. Berkeley was one of the founders of the ACM, and I believe >he was a co-author or the editor of the Lisp 1.0 manual. Does anyone >know if he's still alive? Believe I read he died this year. haynes@ucscc.ucsc.edu haynes@ucscc.bitnet ..ucbvax!ucscc!haynes "Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art." Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle