- Hardcover: 669 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 4 edition (Oct 23 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0130959901
- ISBN-13: 978-0130959904
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 18.4 x 3.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #689,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Completely updated, this book explains how computer designers can follow the structured model to develop efficient hardware and software systems. New information has been included on UNIX, OS/2, INTEL 8088/80286/80386, Motorola 68000/68020/68030 and RISC machine. The operation of a typical IBM PC clone is now described in detail at the chip level.
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This book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding computer systems. It's highly accessible - and it's been thoroughly updated to reflect today's most critical new technologies, including Pentium II and UltraSPARC microprocessors, Windows NT and Java Virtual Machines.Tanenbaum and Goodman present a computer as a series of layers, each one built upon the ones below it, and understandable as a separate entity. The book includes detailed coverage at the digital logic and micro-architecture levels, instruction set level, and operating system machine level, and contains a completely rewritten and updated chapter on parallel computer architecture. This new edition includes a wealth of new material about modern I/O devices, a detailed discussion of the Java Virtual Machine (including a microprogrammed implementation of a subset of a JVM), extensive coverage of multiprocessing, and much more.For all computer professionals and engineers who need an overview or introduction to computer architecture.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Book is fine,
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This review is from: Structured Computer Organization (Hardcover)
Ignore the other reviewers comments who are lazy and/or incapable of doing the end-chapter problems, it's amusing how many people repeated that(like parrots).Some problems take more time and require compact understanding of concepts explained so far and some are easy, I used the book for an independent study course and it's readable, presenting a good deal of material, and includes quite funny comments in the text. I recommend it.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Tanenbaum needs new publisher and editors,
By Marilyn A. Gambone (Hawaii) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Structured Computer Organization (Hardcover)
Andrew Tanenbaum might be the best there is when it comes to the study of computers but, unless you're a "thorough geek," you'd wish other technical writers would step into the fore.Tanenbaum's books all use the same single technique to help students remember important ideas: bold letters. That's it. You'd be hard pressed to understand the main concepts most of the times because, like a forgetful professor, he'd sometimes mention it in passing (without bold font) that you think they weren't that important. Until one pops up in one of his chapter problems, then you're through. He does not provide any solutions at the end of his books. One gets the sense he wrote his books for the instructors/professors who are too lazy (or uncreative) to come up with their own sample problems for the students. I wish they'd write computer science books the way mathematicians write their books: They assume their students are "mathematically-challenged" so they go that extra mile to make sure the students get the point. They provide answers to odd-number problems, for one. They also make sure the layout of their books are arranged so that students don't miss the main ideas. With Tanenbaum, you'd have to dig everywhere; you don't know whether to search in the current, previous, or the following chapters for help in answering the problems. I still have a few more semesters of computer science; I'm almost sure all the textbooks would be written by Tanenbaum (again!). I dread the thought. So, Tanenbaum, if you're reading this: Please, please, look for another publisher and editor who would help you in the layout of your book. And please, please, provide some answers to some of your problems for the students. At over a hundred bucks, I want my money's worth!
1.0 out of 5 stars
Any book but this,
By robert a smith (Colorado Springs Colorado) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Structured Computer Organization (Hardcover)
Do not buy this book. Learn from any other source. Sometimes this book is on track, but most of the complicated concepts are explained so poorly that they are incomprehensible. It may be a classic, but it should be retired. Some of the problems in the chapters can't be done with the information presented, you need to look elsewhere. This is unforgivable. There must be better books out there.
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