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Formulas are a mess

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2023

Like many others have mentioned, the formulas in the Kindle version are a mess, superscript is not applied making a numer that is 2^11 look like 211

This is something that the authors really really need to fix.

Other than that, the material is great and someting every computer scientist must read

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Neekolaus

Kindle Version formulas are confusingly formatted

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2022

I like the book so far, but the formulas are all poorly formatted on Kindle, making it harder to follow.

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Fransisco Scaramucci

Formulas are a mess

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2023

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Wu Jingtao

Good, but not that good.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 2021

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I bought a global edition before on Amazon JP. Since global edition doesn't have a errata and I did find much strange things in that book, I bought this hardcover NA edition in the end. Indeed, NA edition is better than global edition. First, it's colored. Second, hardcover makes its spine is hard to be fractured by folding. And the most important thing, I have a errata now. I thought those typo and misprint is just global edition, but I'm wrong.
So, color and hardcover are the only two things are worth to be appreciated, thought you have to pay more money on it. But there are also some of shortcoming on NA edition.
Expensive, of course.
When I was writing some note on the footer, I noticed that all right pages are kind of sloping, which makes the right side of bottom margin is 18mm, while the left side is 20mm. Not a big deal, but really makes me annoyed after I paid such amount of money. It might be just my book's issue, so please double check if you can tolerate it once you get one like mine before you buy it.
Contents: 5 star
Print: 2 star

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I bought from Amazon, not third party.
The condition is not good enough. The edge of binding glue is exposing, so I have to reinforce by myself.

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Tom Copeland

Great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 10, 2021

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You may be tempted to save a buck and order the paperback international edition. Don't do it. The international edition is poorly printed and riddled with errors. Get the normal hardcover edition (as in the attached image).

Provided you get the right edition (ISBN 9780134092669), this is a superb book. It explains in excellent detail the low-level workings of processors and operating systems. It's a well-written book that contains a lot of great material. Initially got this as a semester rental, but I'm going to pay the extra $100 and buy it. That said, not an easy read: it's required reading for one of my undergraduate classes and is a bit dense at times (chapter 2, for example, rigorously derives important properties of unsigned and signed integers). You'll also probably need some real experience using C or something before you can really grok it.

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Elissa Hairston

Scratches on Cover

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 3, 2022

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I didn't expect the scratches on the cover. But minus that it doesn't look to that bad. The inside looks good and the pages looks fine and clean.

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Neekolaus

Kindle Version formulas are confusingly formatted

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2022

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I like the book so far, but the formulas are all poorly formatted on Kindle, making it harder to follow.

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Great textbook.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 13, 2016

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This book is very readable. It gives you a pretty comprehensive tour of modern computer system while leaving many unnecessary details out.

That being said, I think there are times when the authors can be more concise (e.g. chap 2 is too "mathematical"). As I know this book is usually used for a second/third undergraduate CS course, so putting too many details in the book is kind of demanding.

Doing the labs is an indispensable part of reading this book. They can be found on the book site and they are amazingly fun.

Some people have pointed out that this book is too "academic." Even though that is true to some extent, I think this book is still a must-read since it is meant to give you a good foundation. Once you are done with this book it is fairly easy to pick up "industry" knowledge.

EDIT (2018-05-21): After gaining more experience I'd also recommend The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles . It doesn't go as deep/wide as CSAPP, but it "connects the dots" well in the sense that the "flow" of computer operation is made clear.

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Seth Randall

Great Product

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 26, 2022

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Book came in great condition. Hardcover is sturdy. As for the contents, I am using this book mainly as a reference guide and to relearn some of what I learned in college. Highly recommended!

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Josiah

Bait and Switch.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 29, 2023

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I received a copy that is sold in another country, the pages were damaged.

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alan

Very good materials about hardware and software

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 23, 2022

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This is a great book discussing the interaction between hardware and operating systems. Really fun reading it. Highly recommend it.

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Kaylie

Great Book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2022

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Item arrived timely and is as described. Exactly what I needed.

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