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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by timb07 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @11:42PM (#16288470)
I too loved "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach", and read it all the way through before the semester even started.

Each chapter had a pithy quote at the start, and my favorite was the excerpt from the EDSAC instruction set:

Z -- Halt and Ring Bell: Stop the machine and ring the warning bell

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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by onikolas on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:15AM (#16288765)
Meh, it has a lot of fallacies and pitfalls.
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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by jacobolus on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:17AM (#16288776)
Can you elaborate a bit? Unsubstantiated drive-by insults aren’t very useful to other readers.

Edit: thanks for the explanation. Note to the several downvoters: you aren’t accomplishing much here by “punishing” innocent unfamiliarity with an in-joke...

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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by warkdarrior on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:46AM (#16288873)
It's a joke. Every chapter in the book has a section titled "Fallacies and Pitfalls" describing commonly held beliefs that should be avoided for the topic of that chapter. See for example page 58 here: https://books.google.com/books?id=cM8mDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...
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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by gargarplex on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:51AM (#16288892)
Can you recommend a book that would serve as a useful prerequisite to CA: AQA? Based on your recommendation, I flipped through the first few pages on Amazon, but it felt a lot like Algebra 2 without knowing Algebra 1.
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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by torinmr on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:27AM (#16289010)
At my university CA: AQA was used as the text for the second course in computer architecture. The first course in computer architecture used this book: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-Fourth-A....

If you do get around to reading CA: AQA, you can follow along with this Coursera course (it's taught by the professor I had when I took it at Princeton, and he does a great job teaching it): https://www.coursera.org/learn/comparch

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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by gargarplex on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:13AM (#16289181)
I don't have enough patience for courses. I sort of scan the material for what I really need or want to learn and ignore what's not interesting to me. I can make consistent A's with the benefit of Adderall, but I don't feel comfortable with that.

Your recommendation was very useful and interesting to me, and I bought the paperback. I was surprised that it was cheaper to buy a used paperback than to rent it via Kindle for a month.

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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by sidzpah on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:35AM (#16289250)
It's another book by the same author - Computer Organisation and design : the hardware/software interface - http://a.co/aQYK7DG
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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by jdironman on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:28AM (#16291230)
If you want a more in-depth look at the book a quick google found me this on the first page results.

https://github.com/QSCTech/zju-icicles/blob/master/%E8%AE%A1...

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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by MaxBarraclough on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:37AM (#16289444)
Seconded, that's a great book.

Also, Hennessy was also one of the minds behind the MIPS architecture.

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