Barry Wilkinson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Published April, 1996 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1996, 464 pp.
Paper
ISBN 0-13-518200-X
$62.00

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A book aimed at design techniques used to improve the performance of computer systems. A fully revised second edition is divided into three parts; Part I describes the fundamental methods used to improve the performance of computer systems, Part II describes multiprocessor systems using shared memory and Part III includes computer systems not using shared memory.

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