Structured Computer Organization (4th Edition)

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This book takes a modern structured layered approach to understanding computer systems. Its highly accessible - and its been thoroughly updated to reflect todays 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.