HennessyandPattersonwrotethefirsteditionofthisbookwhengraduatestudentsbuiltcomputerswith50,000transistors.Today,warehouse-sizecomputerscontainthatmanyservers,eachconsistingofdozensofindependentprocessorsandbillionsoftransistors.Theevolutionofcomputerarchitecturehasbeenrapidandrelentless,butComputerArchitecture:AQuantitativeApproachhaskeptpace,witheacheditionaccuratelyexplainingandanalyzingtheimportantemergingideasthatmakethisfieldsoexciting.
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