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The first three chapters of this book are covered in other texts both more succinctly or more with depth so it really doesn't serve any needs in this text if you've been exposed to those already. I suggest finding a good digital logic book and working through that, skipping those chapters. After this the book comes into its own. Chapter 4, 5 13, 16 and appendix A are required for anyone learning about computer architecture in my opinion. This is a good self study text as it has a lot of breadth but not much depth, except in some things. In the chapters I mentioned the book went into a lot of detail in subjects that many books don't seem too.

The book attempts to teach computer programming from the hardware up and is quite ambitious. The age of the text does show but the ideas are quite timeless. This is a good companion to patterson and hennessy computer organization text.