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CS252: Reading Assignment #3
Due Wednesday, Sept 20th
For Wednesday, read the following four papers:
  1. G. Amdahl, G. Blaauw, and F Brooks, Jr. "Architecture of the IBM System / 360," IBM Journal, April 1964

  2. David Moon, "Symbolics Architecture", IEEE Computer, 1987

    3.  
  3. Jack Dennis and David Misunas, "A Preliminary Architecture for a Basic Data-Flow Processor", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 1975.  See ISCA Retrospective

    4.  
  4. Gregory papadopoulos and David Culler, "Monsoon: an Explicit Token-Store Architecture", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 1990.   See ISCA Retrospective

    5.  
Please write 3 paragraphs: one for paper #1, another for paper #2, and one for papers #3 and #4.  Note that you are only writing 3 paragraphs.

Note: the last two of these are from ISCA and are in the ISCA retrospective.

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