Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!mmm From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Books to read before thinking about computer architecture Message-ID: <22580@cup.portal.com> Date: 27 Sep 89 20:23:42 GMT References: <28168@winchester.mips.COM> <9858@venera.isi.edu> <657@unicads.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 10 One of my personal favorites is ELECTRONIC BRAINS by Edmund C. Berkeley. Written in the late 1940's, it covers the problems in data storage and computation which were faced at that time, and the mechanisms which had been developed to solve those problems. When I say "mechanisms", I mean both electronic and mechanical, as well as things in between. Fascinating stuff! 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?