Reddit reviews Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 3rd Edition
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My complete rebuttal to your poor assessment of the complexity of a computer's architecture is covered here:
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-Approach-Kaufmann/dp/1558605967
I've pretty much done it all, but am kinda dumb, so I stick with the easy stuff :) As for the OS loop...that pretty much everything there is to an OS. I briefly attended an OS design classn(I'd already read this book on my own and dropped it early on. Anyway, the prof who had a ph.d. in OR and OS said on the first day of the class that there haven't been any significant changes to operating systems since 1955 as far as basic architectures go.
I'm basically a software engineer too mostly in the scientific fields for process and system design. Some of the software is, or was at the time, some of the most complex software written. The application programming is the complex part @ > 99.5% of SLOC. The OS just manages the tasks and keeps them safe from one another and handles IPC. Anyway, being intimate with the hardware makes this all almost trivial...that's what hardware is supposed to do.
If you go to Amazon's page for the book you can actually find the relevant section on Page 17 of the "Look Inside!" free preview
> For processor design...
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach is the best book on CPU architecture that I've ever read.
I second the recommendation on Knuth's AOCP (and I've read large chunks of it).