Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance (7th Edition) |
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| Title: | Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance (7th Edition) |
| Author: | William Stallings |
| Publisher: | Prentice Hall |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 21 July, 2005 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0131856448 / 9780131856448 |
| List Price: | $139.00 |
| You Save: | $65.00 |
| Amazon Price: | $74.00 (via Amazon marketplace seller) |
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With up-to-date coverage of modern architectural approaches, this handbook provides a thorough discussion of the fundamentals of computer organization and architecture, as well as the critical role of performance in driving computer design. Captures the field’s continued innovations and improvements, with input from active practitioners. Reviews the two most prevalent approaches: superscalar, which has come to dominate the microprocessor design field, including the widely used Pentium; and EPIC, seen in the IA-64 architecture of Intel's Itanium. Views systems from both the architectural and organizational perspectives. Includes coverage of critical topics, such as bus organization, computer arithmetic, I/O modules, RISC, memory, and parallel processors. For professionals in computer product marketing or information system configuration and maintenance.
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Customer Reviews:
• This Author Should Stick To Computers And Leave Writing To The Pros...
01 February, 2010
Downright awful book. This book assumes a LOT of knowledge and even then, it's still incomprehensible. My professor has a masters in computer science and he admitted he didn't understand most of the diagrams and questions in the book. There are very poor examples, sometimes no examples at all. The book is laughably bad as far as typos go. I have never seen, in my entire life, a book, let alone a college textbook, with as many typos as this book. There are some obvious typos and then there are some questions where part of the question is completely missing from the book! My professor had to tell us the part of the question that was missing! He only found out because the author has a giant list of typos available on his horrible, eye wrenching, ear piercing pre-Y2K website. And this is his EIGHTH edition!!! This was the third different book my professor has tried in his past three semesters and he said that he definitely was not going to use this book again. In fact, he's basically decided to teach all of us himself, with his own diagrams and other online resources, (read: FREE) including an awesome, freely available Computer Organization textbook (search David Tarnoff.) TO ALL PROFESSORS AND TEACHERS OUT THERE: Please, please, please save you and your students time, trouble, headaches and money and stay far, far away from this abomination of a book. To the author/publisher/non-existent editor: please, you should just get out of the textbook business right now. No, in fact, you should just stop writing, period. Be honorable, step down/away and stop gouging students and teachers.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Its A Great Book If Youre A Genius
04 November, 2007
I just don't get what the point of textbooks like these is when you're expected to know everything to start with, or you're just supposed to magically understand everything from single sentence explanations that they give you. You just never quite know where the numbers are coming from and all the a - z symbols they start using randomly...so you go finding the meaning of those symbols and lose track of where you were originally. All that along with really useless complicated flowchart style examples render this book completely USELESS, and another $100 down the drain.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Eighth Edition - Introduces New Content (?) And Errors
12 October, 2009
I'll mirror the less favorable reviews regarding the content in the chapters and the exercises at the end of each. It would be nice to learn enough from the pages in the book to answer them, without having to refer to outside resources that provide much better explanations of the content. If you knew enough to fill in the gaps left in the reading material, for what reason would you still need to buy the book?
What bugs me even more is to find all sorts of errors in the book at this price. Yes, writing a book is hard work, but if the proofreaders can't catch a decimal value in a binary field... The first year/first printing of a new edition should be half-priced.
At least the publisher should host a wiki to allow these errata contributions rather than waiting for the errata sheet to be released. Maybe Amazon could offer user-submitted errata for books it carries?
- Amazon Customer Review
• Decent Material, Absolutely Terrible Questions.
14 February, 2010
This is by far the worst textbook I've had yet in college. The material is more of a broad, vague reference that teaches you the basics of the material. This wouldn't be so bad if the questions were the same way. The questions are the most in depth and ridiculous things I've ever seen in a textbook. They require a deep, grad-student level understanding to answer them correctly. If I were you, I would Google "Computer Organization and Architecture 7th edition solution manual" to find a free solution manual. The questions are mostly the same in the 7th edition as they are in the 8th and it helps you to see how useless this book is. Shame on you William Stallings. Don't get this if you don't have to!
- Amazon Customer Review
• Only Good As A Sketchy Reference For Those Who Already Know The Material
23 October, 2007
This book only seems to cover very high level concepts. Then, the end of the chapters contain problems (that our professor loves to assign) that only vaguely relate to the material discussed in the chapter. Several problems involve numerical calculations using formulas that you simply have to magically form out of thin air. No examples of how to work these problems are given.
Also, the book's general explanation of concepts is absolutely horrible. They love to "explain" what they are talking about by providing a chart/figure/diagram labeled with numerous acronyms (that are rarely defined very well) that might as well be cave drawings because they describe these complex pictures so vaguely.
I despise this book, and because of it, I despise the related class.
- Amazon Customer Review
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