[TUHS] BSTJ 1978 UNIX Issue Price Appreciation
steve jenkin
sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Fri May 12 19:38:37 AEST 2023
Clem,
Thanks for the recommendation.
Gordon Bell has put copies of his publications, including books, on his website. [ Books at end of page ]
The 1971 and 1982 ‘Computer Structures’ books are there.
<http://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/Pubs.htm>
However, they aren’t in PDF or .doc format but a series of single-page HTML, at least they’re linked + ‘Contents’.
The images are scans from the book - not always straight or highly legible.
The effort that went into creating these online works and providing them for free (in perpetuity?)
is to be appreciated & applauded.
I found a PDF of a scanned & searchable version elsewhere.
Quite different from the Patterson/Hennessy book.
The field & its understanding of itself visibly progressed.
regards
steve j
> On 12 May 2023, at 05:38, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
>
> Dan Siewiorek and Gordon Bell authors with Allen Newell of "Computer Structures: Principles and Examples" (a.k.a. SBN) - until Hennesy and Patterson wrote their book, was popularly used by the schools that taught computer architecture. [You can download a PDF from Gordon web site if you search for it] The book has copies of some of the most famous papers on computer architecture, among other things. Gordon was still on CMU's faculty part-time when he was at DEC when I was a student.
>
> I'm one of the many legacies of the over 50 years of teaching by Dan Siewiorek -- remember in the 1970s there was an infamous band (named after an interesting object BTW). His students sometimes referred to him as Steely Dan as a term of endearment. I think he has been emeritus for a number of years, but he still comes (walks) to work most days and still is part of the grad systems seminar. In fact, the last time I saw him, he had asked me to come to be a guest lecturer. Funny, I rarely get nervous before a talk, and I have had some interesting and infamous people in my audience asking questions. But doing a talk for someone who had been my undergrad advisor and I so revered did make me so. I wanted to do right for him.
>
> Clem
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