Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!unicads!les From: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Books to read before thinking about computer architecture Message-ID: <657@unicads.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 15:30:23 GMT References: <28168@winchester.mips.COM> <9858@venera.isi.edu> Reply-To: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash) Organization: Unicad Boulder, CO Lines: 23 In article <9858@venera.isi.edu> rod@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Rodney Doyle Van Meter III) writes: >and every detailed processor reference I can get my hands on. yeah! and then try to write a digital synth on 'em. my personal list would always include: Communicating Sequential Processes, C.A.R.Hoare, Prentice Hall International, ??? Intro to VLSI Systems, Conway and Mead, ???, old The Connection Machine, D Hillis, MITPress (or maybe ACM), ??? the most influential books&people have affected me not by communicating _information_ so much as _perspective_. perspective isn't explicitly discussed usually, but you soak it up indirectly. i'm not sure these are "to read *before* thinking [...]", they spoke to me after years of groping in the dark. + + + + + + + + + + | "We close our eyes / and the | | processor-we-were-gearing-up-to-use has come and gone..." | + + + + + + + + + +