[s_kanev]

For an intro read, Hennessy and Patterson's "Computer Organization and Design" is good. Their other book, "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" is the de facto bible, but it's slightly more advanced, and not a good first read. Another good intro book is "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" - especially for software people.

[adambom]

Thanks, I'll check out those titles. I wonder if they still have libraries these days?