Reviews for Computer Organization and Architecture: WITH Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists AN...

The average rating for Computer Organization and Architecture: WITH Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists AN... based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-11-15 00:00:00 Troy Pribnow It has been 25 years since I used this textbook in university. It took me over a week to re-read the 8th edition of this standard textbook (admittedly I skipped some of the technical sections), but at over 815 pages, it is still quite formidable. I like the broad coverage of a range of architectures from mobile ARM to Mainframe. The ARM world is new to me, and I don't quite understand some of the design decisions, it just appears less attractive. The new multithreaded, multiprocessor architectures were also new, but what was a big relevation was the importance of cache memory in the memory hierarchy, I don't recall that as being so crucial back then, perhaps because there wasn't that much memory to go around anyways. I enjoyed the re-read, it is definitely better than a journalist's account of the history of computing.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-08-28 00:00:00 Steve Strong Hard to read or understand if you have no back ground about the topic