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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition
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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition

by Linda Null, Julia Lobur
March 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
744 pages
26h 5m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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CHAPTER SUMMARY

This chapter has presented an overview of some important aspects of multiprocessor and multicomputer systems. These systems provide a means of solving otherwise unmanageable problems in an efficient manner.

The RISC-versus-CISC debate is becoming increasingly a comparison of chip architectures, not ISAs. What really matters is program execution time, and both RISC and CISC designers will continue to improve performance.

Flynn’s taxonomy categorizes architectures depending on the number of instructions and data streams. MIMD machines should be further divided into those that use shared memory and those that do not.

The power of today’s digital computers is truly astounding. Internal processor parallelism has contributed to this ...

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ISBN: 9781284123043