The Elements of Computing Systems:

Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

By Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken

MIT Press, 2005

(Second Printing: 2009, Chinese Edition: 2006, Polish edition: 2007, Indian edition: 2009 )

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