26. Case Study: Book Design of Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution
Dust jacket of Blaauw and Brooks [1997], Computer Architecture
Oh that my words were now written; oh that they were printed in a book!
JOB 19:23
Book writing has logarithmic convergence.
Highlights and Peculiarities
Bold Decision
Stick with a narrow but quite precise definition of computer architecture as the scope of the work. Although we first introduced the term in 1962, and a quite precise definition in 1964, it had come to be broadly used in a much looser sense. We carefully define and distinguish architecture, implementation, and realization. We treat only architecture, ...
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