Gerrit Blaauw

"The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the da…"

"The architecture of a system can be defined as the functional appearance of the system to the user."

"The result of the implementation, the logical design, is traditionally shown as a series of block diagrams. These blocks represent in effect a series of statements, Actually, a direct presentation of …"

"By architecture I mean 'appearance to the user' - it is the functional specification of the system . By implementation I mean 'internal logical organisation which performs the functions specified by t…"

"In this remarkable book on computer design, long-known in the field and widely used in manuscript form, Gerrit A. Blaauw and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. provide a definitive guide and reference for pract…"

"Scientific customers are traditionally less worried about reprogramming efforts than commercial customers, since many jobs are of a research nature and will be done over from time to time anyway. This…"

"A study of the high-speed computer market with the intention of specifying a new computer brings forth a number of interesting observations... striking feature of the market is that we seem to be clos…"

"There always is an architecture, whether it is defined in advance - as with modern computers - or found out after the fact - as with many older computers. For architecture is determined by behavior, n…"