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100	1		_aWilliams, Rob, _d 1948- _9147
245	1	0	_aComputer systems architecture : _b a networking approach / _c Rob Williams.
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aHarlow, England ; _a New York : _b Pearson Prentice Hall, _c 2006.
300			_axxii, 730 p. : _b ill. ; _c 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [713]-715) and index.
505	0		_aPreface -- Preface to the first edition Recommended lab sessions -- Basic functions and facilities of a computer -- Introduction: the hardware-software interface -- The von Neumann inheritance -- Functional units and the fetch-execute cycle -- Building computers from logic: the control unit -- Building computers from logic: the ALU -- Building computers from logic: the memory -- The Intel Pentium CPU -- Subroutines -- Simple input and output -- Serial connections -- Parallel connections -- The memory hierarchy -- Networking and increased complexity -- The programmer's viewpoint -- Local area networks -- Wide area networks -- Other networks -- Introduction to operating systems -- Windows XP -- Filing systems -- Visual output -- RISC processors: ARM and SPARC -- VLIW processors: the EPIC Itanium -- Parallel processing -- Appendix: MS Visual Studo 8 -- Express Edition -- Glossary Answers to end-of-chapter questions -- References -- Index -- Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.
520			_aComputer Systems Architecture presents the subject in a progressive, incremental manner, bottom-upwards. Starting with digital logic and computer hardware, moving through the layers of software and leading on to an introduction to the field of networking and operating systems. It adopts a practical, hand-on approach, drawing upon areas of student interest and experience (the Internet, Pentium processors, GUIs, mobile communications) to stimulate the reader's enthusiasm for the subject. Throughout, system performance is analysed as jointly dependent on hardware and software features. Practical exercises demonstrate this fundamental aspect of hardware/software interaction. Computer Systems Architectureis meant as an introduction in the first year to the subject for university students in Computer Science and related courses. It is planned as a two-semester introductory course in networked computer systems passing through digital logic, peripheral hardware, layers of software, networking, and operating systems.
650		0	_aComputer architecture. _92603
650		0	_aComputer network architectures. _92604
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