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Title: Not for introduction, this is an advanced book !
Review: The complaints of one of the reviewer are perfectly justified in the sense that using this book as your first one in "computer architecture" will probably make you leave the subject very soon. This is an advanced book discussing the problems of computer architecture but with the "instruction set" point of view. The intent of this book is not to teach you basics in computer architecture!For introductory textbooks, rather go to the other one from Hennessy and Patterson "Computer organization and design : The hardware/software interface" or Tanenbaum's "Structured Computer Organization".However, with considerations about the scope of the book, it is excellent even if not easy. I don't think there something better on the market in the subject.
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