Home Schedule Hw & Exam Papers Grades Links	Graduate Computer Architecture UC Berkeley CS252 Summer 2006
	Paper reading 1:
	Read the following papers (available in Papers link): Architecture of the IBM System/360 - G.M. Amdahl, G.A. Blaauw and F.P. Brooks Jr. Design of the B 5000 System - William Lonergan and Paul King The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer - Patterson and Ditzel Comments on "The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer," by Patterson and Ditzel - Douglas W. Clark and William D. Strecker Comment on the papers, specifically addressing (but not limited to): B5000 (1961) vs. IBM 360 (1964) What key different architecture decisions did they make? E.g., data size, floating point size, instruction size, registers, … Which largely survive to this day in current ISAs? In JVM? RISC vs. CISC (1980) What arguments were made for and against RISC and CISC? Which has history settled?