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lfittl on July 28, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's wrong with 1975 programming

I've found "Inside the Machine" by Jon Stokes to be quite a good read, though it's a bit dated by now (published 2006)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1593271042/

wmf on July 28, 2010 [–]

For programmers I would recommend a real computer architecture textbook (e.g. http://books.google.com/books?id=57UIPoLt3tkC) instead of Stokes's analogy-laden book.

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