Reading for January 1--5

1. HP Text Chapter 1 (John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996.)
2. G. M. Amdahl, G. A. Blaauw, and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., ``Architecture of the IBM System/360,'' in IBM Journal of Research and Development, pp. 87--101, April, 1964.
3. G. M. Amdahl, ``Validity of the single-processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities,'' In AFIPS Conference Proceedings, pp. 483--485, April 1967.