Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0138544891 ISBN 13: 9780138544898

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1984

This textbook for undergraduate students breaks down the architecture of a computer system into a hierarchy of distinct levels: digital logic, microprogramming, conventional machine, operating system machine, and assembly language. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

From the Publisher:

An introduction to those aspects of computer hardware and architecture that affect programming.

From the Back Cover:

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.