TY - BOOK AU - Hennessy, John L. AU - Patterson, David A. TI - Computer architecture : a quantitative approach SN - 978-0-12-370490-0 U1 - C 004.22 H39c CY - Amsterdam KW - Computer architecture KW - Computer organization N2 - Through four editions of this book, our goal has been to describe the basic princi-ples underlying what will be tomorrow's technological developments. Our excitement about the opportunities in computer architecture has not abated, and we echo what we said about the field in the first edition: It is not a dreary science of paper machines that will never work. No! It's a discipline of keen intellectual interest, requiring the balance of marketplace forces to cost-performance-power, leading to glorious failures and some notable successes ER -