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From: amos@nsof.co.il (Amos Shapir)
Subject: Re: Parallelism
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alpern@brightware.com (Adam Alpern) writes:

>The entire world of computers needs a better sense of humour. I had two 
>professors in college who made the dry topics of data structures and theory of 
>computation *fun*. As a consequence, the knowledge stuck with me, and was more 
>accesible while I was still clueless.

The best book about basic architecture I have ever seen (and learned a
lot from) is "the Cartoon Guide to Computer Architecture" by Larry Gonick.
You'd have to look quite hard for it though -- I found it by accident
among the cartoon books in the Humor section of a book shop, and had
never even seen it mentioned in any list of CS books.

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