Customer Reviews
Not Very Good - By: , 30 Jul 2004 
How dull this title is! Your heart will sink when you look beyond the pretty cover & see the dreadful typeface.
It just doesn't read well, lots of boring waffle & horrendous diagrams. The index makes things easy to look up, but when you get to the appropriate page you'll wish you hadn't.
I can't fathom out how this won the 'texty' award, maybe it won the wooden spoon?
If anyone out there can find a text that presents computer architecture & microprocessors in a coherent & enlightening way then please tell me.
this book is excellent the best book i've ever read - By: jonny@hotmail.com, 15 Mar 2002 
this book was reccommended as part of my computer science course & found it full of exciting concepts & ideas. An essential study aid which I wouldn't have been able to do without. A MUST BUY!!!!!!!!!!
Useful Reference Book - By: d.j.norris@btinternet.com, 31 Oct 2000 
Bought the book as a reference to a computer course at uni. Turned out to be quite useful, liked the fact that it concentrated on the Pentinum II & Power PC processor. It was not the main core text book, but still covered the subject adequately for my needs. Also had good links to other resources (books & websites).
Boring Book - By: , 10 Mar 1999 
This book is written using a very sparse manner of exposing ideas. Reading it is a hard & exhaustive task. I can't imagine why would they give it the 1996 TEXTY award. Buy it only if you are required to do so or if you can handle some sort of dynamic reading. Otherwise get something else (there are many other publications on the subject) since this is just a boring & demotivating book.
