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Review title: Good introductory book on computer structure & architecture
Product review: Mano's book served as the main text for 2 courses I've taken this year (I'm a 2nd year Computer Science student). The book is quite informative. The chapter dealing with the basic computer (chap. 5) and the one dealing with assembly for this computer (chap. 6) are especially good. These chapters are full of details, and let you understand how a real computer works. The chapter about microprogramming is also good. The chapters about the CPU, I/O, computer memory and pipeline are less detailed, but give you a general feeling of how things work. Generally speaking, the book is very good, although it is not perfect; mistakes do pop up here and there, although they are not major. I hope a new edition will come out soon, because some of the material seems to be outdated (the estimated computation times used, for example, are just too slow -- one joked calling them mano seconds instead of nano seconds :)).
