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Article #2371Re: Books to read before thinking about computer architecture
From: Jim Haynes
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1989 01:26
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1989 01:26
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In article <22580@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>One of my personal favorites is ELECTRONIC BRAINS by Edmund C. Berkeley.
Ah, my first computer book too! Believe the title is GIANT BRAINS. And
Berkeley wrote a series of articles in the early 1950s Radio-Electronics
magazine, giving circuits for gates and boolean algebra and a description
of SEAC.
>BTW, Edmund C. Berkeley was one of the founders of the ACM, and I believe
>he was a co-author or the editor of the Lisp 1.0 manual. Does anyone
>know if he's still alive?
Believe I read he died this year.
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