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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson India Education Services Pvt. ltd.; 3rd edition (January 1, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1120 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9332573905
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9332573901
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 15 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.22 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.99 x 10 x 1.85 inches
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Randal E. Bryant received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1973 and then attended graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his PhD degree in computer science in 1981. He spent three years as an assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology, and has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon since 1984. For five of those years he served as head of the Computer Science Department, and for ten of them he served as Dean of the School of Computer Science. He is currently a university professor of computer science. He also holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Professor Bryant has taught courses in computer systems at both the undergraduate and graduate level for around 40 years. Over many years of teaching computer architecture courses, he began shifting the focus from how computers are designed to how programmers can write more efficient and reliable programs if they understand the system better. Together with Professor O’Hallaron, he developed the course 15-213, Introduction to Computer Systems, at Carnegie Mellon that is the basis for this book. He has also taught courses in algorithms, programming, computer networking, distributed systems, and VLSI design.

Most of Professor Bryant’s research concerns the design of software tools to help software and hardware designers verify the correctness of their systems. These include several types of simulators, as well as formal verification tools that prove the correctness of a design using mathematical methods. He has published over 150 technical papers. His research results are used by major computer manufacturers, including Intel, IBM, Fujitsu, and Microsoft. He has won several major awards for his research. These include two inventor recognition awards and a technical achievement award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation, the Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award from the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), and the W. R. G. Baker Award, the Emmanuel Piore Award, the Phil Kaufman Award, and the A. Richard Newton Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is a fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE and a member of both the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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You may be tempted to save a buck and order the paperback international edition. Don't do it. The international edition is poorly printed and riddled with errors. Get the normal hardcover edition (as in the attached image).Provided you get the right edition (ISBN 9780134092669), this is a superb book. It explains in excellent detail the low-level workings of processors and operating systems. It's a well-written book that contains a lot of great material. Initially got this as a semester rental, but I'm going to pay the extra $100 and buy it. That said, not an easy read: it's required reading for one of my undergraduate classes and is a bit dense at times (chapter 2, for example, rigorously derives important properties of unsigned and signed integers). You'll also probably need some real experience using C or something before you can really grok it.
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Tom Copeland
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2021
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You may be tempted to save a buck and order the paperback international edition. Don't do it. The international edition is poorly printed and riddled with errors. Get the normal hardcover edition (as in the attached image).

Provided you get the right edition (ISBN 9780134092669), this is a superb book. It explains in excellent detail the low-level workings of processors and operating systems. It's a well-written book that contains a lot of great material. Initially got this as a semester rental, but I'm going to pay the extra $100 and buy it. That said, not an easy read: it's required reading for one of my undergraduate classes and is a bit dense at times (chapter 2, for example, rigorously derives important properties of unsigned and signed integers). You'll also probably need some real experience using C or something before you can really grok it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2021
You may be tempted to save a buck and order the paperback international edition. Don't do it. The international edition is poorly printed and riddled with errors. Get the normal hardcover edition (as in the attached image).

Provided you get the right edition (ISBN 9780134092669), this is a superb book. It explains in excellent detail the low-level workings of processors and operating systems. It's a well-written book that contains a lot of great material. Initially got this as a semester rental, but I'm going to pay the extra $100 and buy it. That said, not an easy read: it's required reading for one of my undergraduate classes and is a bit dense at times (chapter 2, for example, rigorously derives important properties of unsigned and signed integers). You'll also probably need some real experience using C or something before you can really grok it.
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DF
5.0 out of 5 stars Great textbook.
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2016
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This book is very readable. It gives you a pretty comprehensive tour of modern computer system while leaving many unnecessary details out.

That being said, I think there are times when the authors can be more concise (e.g. chap 2 is too "mathematical"). As I know this book is usually used for a second/third undergraduate CS course, so putting too many details in the book is kind of demanding.

Doing the labs is an indispensable part of reading this book. They can be found on the book site and they are amazingly fun.

Some people have pointed out that this book is too "academic." Even though that is true to some extent, I think this book is still a must-read since it is meant to give you a good foundation. Once you are done with this book it is fairly easy to pick up "industry" knowledge.

EDIT (2018-05-21): After gaining more experience I'd also recommend  The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles . It doesn't go as deep/wide as CSAPP, but it "connects the dots" well in the sense that the "flow" of computer operation is made clear.
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Mariana S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2023
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I need this book for one of my undergraduate classes. The international version has errors but it is possible to look up and find websites that say and correct the errors. The seller is wonderful to work with to solve a small issue. Highly recommend this seller!
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Wu Jingtao
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not that good.
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2021
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I bought a global edition before on Amazon JP. Since global edition doesn't have a errata and I did find much strange things in that book, I bought this hardcover NA edition in the end. Indeed, NA edition is better than global edition. First, it's colored. Second, hardcover makes its spine is hard to be fractured by folding. And the most important thing, I have a errata now. I thought those typo and misprint is just global edition, but I'm wrong.
So, color and hardcover are the only two things are worth to be appreciated, thought you have to pay more money on it. But there are also some of shortcoming on NA edition.
Expensive, of course.
When I was writing some note on the footer, I noticed that all right pages are kind of sloping, which makes the right side of bottom margin is 18mm, while the left side is 20mm. Not a big deal, but really makes me annoyed after I paid such amount of money. It might be just my book's issue, so please double check if you can tolerate it once you get one like mine before you buy it.
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Mirea Andrei Cristian
5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest book on CS
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023
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Absolutely love this
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Craig Watkins
1.0 out of 5 stars Maybe one step removed from a reference manual
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2022
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It appears to be quite detailed and thorough, but is also thoroughly unreadable. The language is uniformly and unceasingly terse, formal and literal - as if the only way to convey information was with the bare minimum of words. Who cares if the reader could use a restatement, a metaphor or analogy, god forbid there was an occasional anecdote or practical example of encountering these things in the wild. I can't imagine trying to wade through this without my instructor's lectures.
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alan
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good materials about hardware and software
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2022
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This is a great book discussing the interaction between hardware and operating systems. Really fun reading it. Highly recommend it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Probably ok for academics
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2016
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Probably ok for academics purposes, but I definitely wouldn't recommend for experienced professionals. In my opinion, this book has following pros and cons.

PROS:
First 3 chapters are excellent. Very well explained. I think I filled my gaps in knowledge about floating points, instruction set (basics) and processor architecture.

CONS:
- Chapter 5: IT industry has moved far ahead and the authors are still stuck on topics like "Loop Unrolling". There are more realistic and advanced coding performance problems/scenario in IT industry that I think should have been addressed in this book. Growing distance between IT industry and CS academics really is making CS degrees useless.

- Chapter 6: I think some of the very important topics about memory systems are missing, such as Cache Coherency, MESI protocol, Bus locks, LOCK prefix, CMPXCHG, XCHG etc. Temporal and spatial locality are overly covered (with fancy graphs and all :)).

- Part III: I glanced over Part III and I think You are probably better off with any other Linux book.
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Mon Was
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast delivery & well packed
Reviewed in Germany on July 12, 2023
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This order arrived a couple of days before the estimated delivery date.
It wrapping of the book was sturdy and there are just minor marks on the outside, which are totally fine seeing that it’s not a hard cover.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fast delivery & well packed
Reviewed in Germany on July 12, 2023
This order arrived a couple of days before the estimated delivery date.
It wrapping of the book was sturdy and there are just minor marks on the outside, which are totally fine seeing that it’s not a hard cover.
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Akash kumbhakar
5.0 out of 5 stars Ground level book
Reviewed in India on August 24, 2022
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Good for those who have basic knowledge of c programming and little bit of memory management understanding in C.
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Radek
3.0 out of 5 stars Paper version great, ebook version trash
Reviewed in France on October 28, 2021
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I own both the paper version and the ebook version. The paper version is an excellent book, highly recommended. The ebook version is barely readable, it contains many typographical errors, for example equations have exponents that don't appear properly as exponents, code formatting is messy, etc. Lazy cash grab probably done by garbage automated conversion software and no proof reading.
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Francesco Magliocco
4.0 out of 5 stars A lot of mistakes
Reviewed in Canada on January 23, 2019
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I have noticed there is a lot of mistakes in this book. One being in the first practice problem of chapter 2. For the solution, (2.1 question A) it says that the hex digit B in binary was 1101, and that D in binary is 1101. Now for the D, that is correct. But for B it is 1011. Now for the same practice problem 2.1, but for the other questions, B - D, it shows that hex B in binary is 1011..

I was actually pretty livid. There is another one where it shows 1000 as 9, but that is a different practice problem.

Also for the fractional section, in one of the practice problems, you have to fill in the blanks given certain values. One was 5/16, but the solution to that one shows it as 25/16.

There is a lot more, but other than that, it is a very good read. I haven't finished it yet, but so far I'm loving it. I really recommend it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Paperback edition product quality poor
Reviewed in Japan on January 25, 2023
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This product (paperback edition) is poorly made. The cover is of poor quality, the pages are crooked and text is cropped off. It appears to be printed in India for distribution in India.
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