奔腾编年史
The Pentium Chronicles
Robert P. Colwell · 初版 2005 年
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- 详述大型企业推进工程落地的社交协作
- 记录了奔腾P6架构的珍贵研发历史
- 展现工程研发与商业营销的神话博弈
“作为 P6 的首席架构师，Robert Colwell 揭开了一个项目的传奇始末，并提供了独到的视角：该项目从寥寥几位架构师壮大为数百名工程师的团队，其中许多人刚走出校门。The Pentium Chronicles 绝不仅是一部关于项目管理的著作，它还呈现了 P6 项目背后的逻辑、个人胜利和幽默故事，这项开创性的事业通过在微处理器中首次尝试乱序投机超标量架构，打破了所有的技术界限。”“本书用平实易懂的语言，围绕着一套‘我们真希望早点知道的’框架展开，
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……引战的口水料。那些如今已经倒闭或辉煌不再的公司（比如 SGI、DEC、HP），里面的计算机工程师非常值得尊敬。再举个例子，Bob Colwell 的《The Pentium Chronicles》就写得非常棒，里面讲述了在能够将设计大规模量产的大企业里，如何成功推进工程落地，非常发人深省。但如果你完全按字面意思去理解……
…flamewar fodder. A lot of respect is owed to computer engineers at corporations that are defunct or a fraction of their former greatness (e.g., SGI, DEC, HP). As a further example, Bob Colwell's book, "The Pentium Chronicles", is a great read and teaches some powerful lessons about how to successfully do engineering in the kind of large organizations that can scale production of a design. But if you take it at face value,…
……Intel 在 x86 微架构上一骑绝尘，此后整整二十年间除了几次小翻车，一直保持着这一领先优势。Bob Colwell（本帖其他地方也提到了）写了一本关于 P6 的引人入胜的技术史：《The Pentium Chronicles》。
…Intel leaps ahead on x86 microarchitecture, a lead they’d hold with only a few minor stumbles for two decades. Bob Colwell (mentioned elsewhere ITT) wrote a fascinating technical history of the P6: The Pentium Chronicles.
去读读 Bob Colwell 的《The Pentium Chronicles》吧。Pentium 4 那个时期，营销团队彻底绑架了 Intel，向大众灌输这种“GHz 神话”，而当时很多人明明知道从长远来看这是一条死路。
Read "The Pentium Chronicles" by Bob Colwell. The Pentium 4 is the time frame when marketing took over Intel and fed this Ghz myth when many knew it was a doomed long term path.
这一行公开开发的内容很少，所以大家也没啥动力去写公开文章。你可以找找类似 Bob Colwell 的《The Pentium Chronicles》这种书来看看。
There's little open development, so there's little incentive to write up public articles. You could try something like Bob Colwell's "The Pentium Chronicles".
关于计算机体系结构我最喜欢的几本书：Shen 和 Lepasti 的《Modern Processor Design》，里面有大量关于超标量处理器的内容，结合了现有成果给出了很棒的范例。Robert Colwell 的《The Pentium Chronicles》，技术性没那么强，但花了很多笔墨讲述搞定一款重要 CPU 设计背后的“人情世故”与团队协作。
My favorite books on computer architecture: _Modern Processor Design_ (Shen and Lepasti). Lots of material on superscalar processors, with some nice examples from existing work. _The Pentium Chronicles_ (Robert Colwell). Much less technical, but a lot about the social nature of getting a significant CPU design done.
《Soul of a New Machine》棒极了！同样是关于计算机体系结构/新处理器研发故事的，Robert Colwell 写的《The Pentium Chronicles》也非常有趣，讲述了 Intel 首款乱序执行 CPU——Pentium Pro 背后的故事。
Soul of a New Machine is fantastic! Also on computer architecture / story of developing a new processor, "The Pentium Chronicles" by Robert Colwell is a really interesting book on the story of the Pentium Pro, the first out-of-order CPU from Intel.