John McKown wrote: >Freely downloadable. Entitled "A Closer Look at Instruction Set >Architectures"
Good stuff. It appears to be this book: http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Computer-Organization-Architecture-Linda/dp /1449620639 based on some Googling -- silly thing doesn't have the book title in the chapter! One of the authors is "Linda Null". There's a joke lurking in there somewhere... (she marries an Indian guy, he takes her last name, becomes "Dev Null"?) ...phsiii P.S. http://books.google.com/books?id=f83XxoBC_8MC&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269&dq=%22A+Clo ser+Look+at+Instruction+Set+Architectures%22&source=bl&ots=5epu5dXbXa&sig=0w fXJZDiiJBYfcRjYWeWyKL9NL0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IX0DU_7NE-PayAGX7oCIAw&ved=0CEsQ6AEw BQ#v=onepage&q=%22A%20Closer%20Look%20at%20Instruction%20Set%20Architectures %22&f=false seems to be the whole book, though I've only sampled.
