Due Tuesday, January 16.

Read the following papers:

1. Architecture of the IBM System/360 - G.M. Amdahl, G.A. Blaauw, and F.P. Brooks Jr.
2. Design of the B5000 System (Republished version here, might be easier to read) - William Lonergan and Paul King
3. The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer - Patterson and Ditzel
4. Comments on "The Reduced Instruction Set Computer," by Patterson and Ditzel - Douglas W. Clark and William D. Strecker

Comment on the papers. For each paper, provide a short (a few sentences) summary of the focus of the paper or key arguments made. Make sure to specifically address these points:

1. IBM 360 vs B5000
   1. What key different architecture decisions did they make? For example, data size, floating point size, instruction size, registers, etc.
   2. Which features largely survive to this day in current ISAs?
2. RISC vs CISC
   1. What arguments were made for and against RISC and CISC?
   2. What do we largely use now

Your comments do not need to be long at all; I mostly want to make sure that you've thought about the important parts of each paper.