Xref: utzoo comp.arch:4669 comp.edu:1151 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!matloff From: matloff@iris.ucdavis.edu (Norm Matloff) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.edu Subject: Re: Computer Architecture and Organization (the class) Message-ID: <1901@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 6 May 88 19:26:59 GMT References: <3996@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1892@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <3183@saturn.ucsc.edu> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: matloff@iris.UUCP (Norm Matloff) Distribution: na Organization: U.C. Davis - College of Engineering Lines: 12 Keywords: textbook In article <3183@saturn.ucsc.edu> haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) writes: >Since nobody else has mentioned it, I used the book "Introduction to >Computer ARchitecture and Organization" by Harold Lorin (Wiley, 1982). Very nice book! However, it is completely qualitative and philosophical. Although it might make a nice supplement, as Jim mentioned, I don't think it would work at all as a main text. E.g. in following up on what I said earlier, the EE students, who are in an "implementation mindset", wouldn't like it. Norm Matloff