The goal of the book is to illustrate the principles of computer organization by using anumber of extensive examples drawn from commercially available computers. Themachines discussed in the book are the Motorola 680X0 and 683XX families, Intel80X86 and Pentium families, ARM family, Sun Microsystems Sparc family, andDEC(Compaq) Alpha family. The 68000, Pentium, and ARM are used as detailed examplesearly in the book.