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CS252: Reading Assignment #1
Due Monday, January 23rd

The reading assignment for Monday 1/23 for CS 252 is to read the following papers (they are scanned in pdf format):
  1. The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer, David Patterson and David Ditzel. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News (15 Oct 1980) 
  2. Comments on 'The Case for the Reduced instruction Set Computer' by Patterson and Ditzel, Douglas Clark and William Strecker. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architcture News (15 Oct 1980) 
  3. Retrospective on High-Level Computer Architecture, David Ditzel and David Patterson. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 1981. See ISCA Retrospective
Make sure to look at the ISCA Retrospective link for paper #3. You must also:

Write one paragraph about the combination of papers 1, 2,  and 3. You should briefly summarize the arguments, then  describe your opinions on and reactions to the issues introduced in the papers.

 

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