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Great suggestion.

I flipped through Computer Architecture, A Quantitative Approach (http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Fifth-Quantitati...) at the bookstore the other day and it looked interesting, but that's all I could gather in the short time I had.

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This is a standard textbook on computer architecture across many universities in the US (and if my students are right, outside it as well). So it might be worth a read.

If this is absolutely the first time you are looking at architecture, http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-Fifth-Arc... by the same authors might be a easier entry point.

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