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Students are invited to explore computer systems and their components in this text offering a step-b...
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Students are invited to explore computer systems and their components in this text offering a step-by-step exposition of the central ideas in computer organization, assembly language, and computer architecture. The book is based on a virtual computer, Pep/7, which is designed to teach basic concepts of the classic von Neumann machine. The text covers the core topics in the Architecture and Organization category of the ACM and IEEE Curriculum 2001 Guidelines for Computer Science. This second edition contains new material on the IEEE floating point standard, and the C++ coding style is now more conventional than in the first edition. The author is affiliated with Pepperdine University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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