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CS252: Reading Assignment #5
Due Wednesday, Sept 27th
For Wednesday, read the following four papers, and turn in three paragraphs (as described below):
  1. James Smith,  Decoupled Access/Execute Computer Architectures, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architectures (ISCA), 1982. See ISCA Retrospective
  2. Joseph Fisher, Very Long Instruction Word Architectures and the ELI-512, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1983. See ISCA Retrospective
  3. Michael Smith, Mark horowitz, and Monica Lam, Efficient Superscalar performance Through Boosting, Proceedings of the Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 1992
  4. Peter Glaskowsky, Pentium 4 (Partially) Previewed, Microprocessor Report, August 2000, Volumn 14, Archive 8.
Write three paragraphs for Wednesday.  Write one paragraph on paper #1 and one paragraph for papers #2 and #3, and one paragraph for paper #4.

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