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CS252: Reading Assignment #2
Due Wednesday, September 13th



The reading assignment for Wednesday for CS 252 is to read the following papers (they are scanned in pdf format):
  1. David Patterson and Carlo Sequin, "RISC I: A Reduced Instruction Set VLSI Computer", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 1981. See ISCA Retrospective

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  3. James Smith and Andrew Pleszkun, "Implementation of Precise Interrupts in Pipelined Processors", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 1985. See ISCA Retrospective

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  5. Gurindar Sohi and Sriram Vajapeyam, "Instruction Issue Logic for High-Performance, Interruptable Pipelined Processors", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 1987.  See ISCA Retrospective

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  7. Richard Russel, "The CRAY-1 Computer System", Communications of the ACM, 21(1) 63-72, January 1978
You must also:
Write one paragraph about paper #1, one paragraph about the combination of papers #2 and #3, and one paragraph about paper #4.
To be completely clear: this is 3 paragraphs.
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