I have the second edition (there appears to now be a third out!) but re-reading the preface and "what's changed since the first edition" doesn't seem to say what I remembered re: buses (namely, it says nothing at all). It is possibly my professors were referring to a much earlier course/textbook (or that I dreamed the whole thing!). CS: APP is still a pretty useful book, but...not on this topic, it would seem.
(in the second edition, the only reference to buses is on a page where they note that as of its publishing, buses are much more complicated and much less exposed to programmers than they once were) - Sophie On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > From: Sophie Haskins > > > earlier editions of "Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective" > had a > > bunch of discussions of buses etc .. but the edition I have > explicitly > > calls out that they felt like it wasn't important to have chapters on > > anymore :( > > Well, that might not be the wrong call, _iff_ keeping them in would have > increase the cost of the text-book for (poor) student... > > And for the rest of us, there's ABE for the earlier editions! :-) Which > edition do you have, may I ask? Thanks! > > Noel >
