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From: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Books to read before thinking about computer architecture
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Date: 26 Sep 89 15:30:23 GMT
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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.

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