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- From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
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- Subject: Re: Computer Architecture Rationale
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- Date: 29 Aug 92 05:28:59 GMT
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- However it would be a service to students of computer architecture to get
- the rationale in public print, even if it has to wait until the end of
- the product life cycle. One of my favorite books is the one edited by
- Werner Buchholz on Project Stretch, in which the designers documented the
- alternatives they considered and the reasons for their decisions.
- I suppose they could do this because Stretch wasn't going anywhere as a
- product. Sure wish I had such a book about the IBM 360 architecture.
- There is a book about IBMs 360 and early 370 computers; but it's mostly
- about the trials and tribulations of getting the thing designed and
- produced and not enough about how architectural details were decided.
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